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Australia's 2025 Federal Budget allocates significant funds to support and grow the agriculture, fisheries, and forestry sectors, with measures focused on climate resilience, trade, and food security, including funding for drought preparedness, emissions reduction, and market access.

Australian beef production and exports are forecast to reach record levels in 2025, building on the record export results achieved in 2024. This situation is similar to 2014 and 2015, when strong U.S. demand was driven by herd rebuilding leading to similar peaks in beef production and exports for Australia.

A major driver of Australia's manufacturing sector is its food, beverage, and grocery industries, which account for a third of all activity. Recent growth has been strong, with an 11% increase in turnover to US$107 billion in 2022-23.

Australia is a prosperous, economically stable, and industrialized nation. Underpinning Australia's strong economy is its open and transparent trade and investment environment....

Beneficial and widespread rainfall in early 2020 has increased prospects for a good start to the Australian grain sowing season.

Australia’s sugar production is expected to increase to 4.5 million metric tons (MMT) in marketing year (MY) 2020/21, from 4.285 MMT in MY 2019/20.

Australia’s cotton production is forecast to partially recover in 2020/21 and rise to 1.7 million bales, from a revised estimate of 625,000 bales in 2019/20.

Australian oilseed production in marketing year (MY) 2020/21 is forecast to begin to recover following years of drought-impacted crops.