Publication Date

1991

Series Number

Miscellaneous Publication 33/91

Publisher

Department of Agriculture, Western Australia

City

Perth

ISSN

0725 847X

Abstract

In 1990/91 the Western Australian beef industry generated close to $172 million and was the State's third largest rural industry.

As at 31 March this year the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates the State's cattle herd at 1,651,000 head of which 108,000 head are dairy cattle. Of the beef cattle 832,000 are located in the agricultural area and 819,000 in the pastoral area.

The principal market for Western Australian beef is the domestic market. This market consumes around 65 per cent of the State's annual production. Export markets use close to 35 per cent with the principal markets being the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan. Of these the United States accounts for 60 per cent of all exports.

Number of Pages

50

Keywords

Beef cattle, Marketing, Exports, Western Australia

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Agricultural Economics | Agricultural Science | Beef Science | Marketing

Comments

Paper presented to a "Marketing beef cattle" field day organized by the Moora Office of the Western Australian Department of Agriculture and held on the Nixon Bros. property "Dalmeny Downs", New Norcia 24 September 1991

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