Publication Date
5-2013
Publisher
Depatment of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
City
Perth
Abstract
DAFWA commissioned this WA sheep producer survey as an additional data set to the Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Innovation (Sheep CRC) national producer survey. The data was collected by telephone survey in February and March 2011 for the purposes of gathering benchmark information on a range of sheep management practices. The data collected mostly relates to flock management during the 2010 season. The same survey will be run again in 2014 and a comparison of the information collected will be used to measure how producers have changed their practices during that time.
Producers were phoned and invited to contribute to this survey if they had more than 500 sheep and farmed in either the Cereal Sheep Zone (CSZ) or the Medium Rainfall Zone (MRZ). Information collected from 369 WA sheep producers is presented in this report.
Stratified sampling was used to get a good representation of WA sheep production, with 263 responses collected for the cereal sheep zone and 133 from the medium rainfall zone. This relates to 8.4% of producers in the CSZ and 6.3% in the MRZ. These figures have been calculated from figures collected in 2005/06 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and adjusted in 2009.
Number of Pages
57
Keywords
wool, sheep producer, forecasting, flock management, flock model, flock demographics, surveys, sheep, Western Australia, statistics
Disciplines
Agricultural Economics | Sheep and Goat Science
Recommended Citation
Curnow, M,
Van Burgel, A,
Bucat, J,
and
Jones, A.
(2013), Western Australian farmer survey 2011. Depatment of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth. Report.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/ap_publishedrpts/18
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