Australian crop and livestock farmers face uncertain climate change and variability and a challenge for adaptation decisions. These decisions can be (1) adjustments to practices and technologies, (2) changes to production systems, or (3) transformation of industries, for example, by relocation...

The wine industry in Western Australia, like its counterparts in some other wine-making regions across the globe, faces some interesting investment choices regarding the relative merits of expenditure on promotion or production and whether export or domestic markets should be the focus for sales...

Improving farm productivity is often touted as essential for the future prospects of Australian agriculture, particularly for the export-oriented broadacre farm sector. This paper draws on farm panel data for the period 2002 to 2011. The annual components of productivity of the same group of 223...

This paper uses variance decomposition modelling to explore how wheat revenuevolatility in Australia has changed spatially and temporally. The components ofrevenue variance are the variances and covariances of wheat prices, the area of wheatharvested and the yield of wheat. The key finding is...

This paper explores some of the important issues that influence the magnitude of receival site grain catchments in Australia. Changes in grain harvests, transport and grain handling technologies and costs; changes in farming systems, crop yields and harvesting capacity; investments in roads and...

The financial performance of 240 farms in a drought‐affected agricultural region of Australia is analysed. The decadal study period included some years of widespread drought, as well as years with only subregional droughts or no drought. Some droughts created larger adverse financial impacts...