A PLAN by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to abandon its annual and larger five-yearly cattle herd surveys has raised concerns, as well as some possible solutions from beef industry stakeholders.
As this article last week outlined, ABS intends to discontinue its large agricultural surveys and “develop processes to produce future agricultural statistics using new data sources, together with smaller surveys to fill data gaps.”
At stake are statistics gathered in both the major five-yearly ABS Agricultural Census, and the annual Rural Environmental and Agricultural Commodities…
