Tasmania. (Tas)

Livestock herds of Sheep and Cattle.

2011

• 3000 farms carrying 446,000 cattle (1.8% of National Herd)¹,
  • includes 1800 farms with 1.9M sheep (2010)¹
    • 2000/2001 sheep numbers were about 3.3M, preceeding years 3.85M²
    • Flock decline due to collapse of wool market early 1990’s²
    • several poor consecutive seasons up to 2001/2002.²
    • Merinos make up 75% of Tasmanian sheep flock (2001/2002)¹
  • Decrease of farms by 6% since 2007/2008¹
    • Decline in cattle numbers (2001/2002) is result of declining returns, abnormally poor seasons and diversion to alternative higher returning enterprises²

A number of charts may have been sourced from the attached reports.

2011 -12 Production Trends

2011/12 Livestock Sector Scorecard and Production Trends – Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

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  Killfaddy Saleyard review, June 2012. Skringar, Chapman, Makris, Newton & Hird

Source – 11/12 Production Trends – Livestock Numbers

This graph charts the livestock numbers in herds  in Tasmania from 1997/98 to 2011/12
The top blue line is sheep, centre line beef cattle and bottom darker line is dairy herd.

Source – MLA 2012 cattle industry projections
This chart looks at herd figures in each state 2006 and compares them to those of 2011

Sources

1. Regional economic development plan: Northern Tasmania. August 2011
2. ‘Food, Agricultureal & Fisheries Industries Profile’ 01/02