Agricultural and horticultural statistics

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Agricultural production statistics

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The Agricultural Production Statistics programme is fully-funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and administered by Stats NZ. It provides information about:

animal farming, including sheep, beef and dairy cattle, and deer
crop growing, including grain and seed crops, fruit and vegetables, wine grapes and nursery plants
forestry and farm practices, including irrigation and fertiliser use.

The programme supports a range of tier 1 statistics – essential statistics to understand how well New Zealand is performing and to inform critical decisions.

It involves a full census of all farmers and foresters every 5 years, with sample surveys in intervening years. The last census was in 2022.

Provisional results are released by Stats NZ in mid-December each year and the final results are released in mid-May the following year.

Agriculural Production Statistics surveys and censuses – Stats NZ

Livestock slaughter statistics

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Monthly livestock slaughter statistics for sheep, cattle, goats, horses and pigs at a national level.

Data is updated on the 25th of every month or the next working day. There is a 1-month lag between the data being processed and when it is published online, and the statistics are provisional for 3 months.

As of 1 August 2016, cattle slaughter numbers and weights are disaggregated according to whether they come from dairy farms or beef farms. This results from the change in the TB levy system.

No horses have been slaughtered for human consumption since October 2016.

Live animal exports

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Download spreadsheets with annual statistics for the export of germplasm and live animals from 2011 to 2020.

Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2020 [XLSX, 1.3 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2019 [XLS, 2.1 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2018 [XLSX, 1.3 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2017 [XLS, 2.1 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2016 [XLSX, 1.2 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2015 [XLS, 2.1 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2014 [XLS, 2.2 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2013 [XLS, 2.1 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2012 [XLS, 1.4 MB]
Live animal and germplasm export statistics 2011 [XLS, 1.4 MB]

An infographic showing exports of live animals in 2016 [PDF, 411 KB]

Horticultural statistics

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Horticulture New Zealand and Plant & Food Research produce an annual publication with facts and statistics about horticultural production and exports.

View the fresh facts brochures

MPI last ran the full Horticulture, Arable and Apiculture Farm Monitoring Programme in 2012. It has since been replaced with a combination of co-funded partnerships with sector bodies and direct support by MPI.

Pipfruit

2017 Pipfruit Monitoring Report [PDF, 788 KB]
2016 Pipfruit Monitoring Report [PDF, 401 KB]
2015 Pipfruit Monitoring Report [PDF, 956 KB]

Viticulture

2017 Variety gross margin benchmarking report [PDF, 2.3 MB]
2017 Vineyard benchmarking report Marlborough [PDF, 3.7 MB]
2016 Viticulture gross margin benchmarking report [PDF, 1.5 MB]
2016 Viticulture model vineyard benchmarking report Marlborough [PDF, 1.4 MB]
2014 Viticulture monitoring report [PDF, 858 KB]

Kiwifruit

MPI has a partnership with the kiwifruit sector to develop a revised kiwifruit monitoring programme. Monitoring reports will be published when they are available.

Arable

MPI has a contract for access to anonymised and aggregated data from the Foundation for Arable Research for analysis within the Ministry, as required. There are no published reports.

Apiculture

2017 Apiculture monitoring report [PDF, 2.9 MB]
2016 Apiculture monitoring report [PDF, 1.7 MB]
2015 Apiculture monitoring report [PDF, 553 KB]
2014 Apiculture monitoring report [PDF, 731 KB]
2013 Apiculture monitoring report [PDF, 888 KB]

Horticulture, Arable and Apiculture Monitoring – 2012

Download information and datasets from MPI's 2012 horticulture, arable and apiculture monitoring programme.

Pipfruit [PDF, 1.5 MB]

Download 2012 Excel files [XLS, 146 KB]

Viticulture [PDF, 1.6 MB]

Download 2012 Excel files [XLS, 125 KB]

Canterbury Arable Cropping [PDF, 864 KB]

Download 2012 Excel files [XLS, 98 KB]

Bay of Plenty kiwifruit [PDF, 1.1 MB]

Download 2012 Excel files [XLS, 101 KB]

Apiculture [PDF, 585 KB]

Download 2012 Excel files [XLS, 69 KB]

Pastoral monitoring

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MPI last ran the Farm Monitoring Programme in 2012 and it has since been replaced by partnerships with Beef+LambNZ and DairyNZ. MPI has a contract to access anonymised data for analysis within the Ministry, as required.

MPI pastoral monitoring – 2012

Download information and datasets from MPI's 2012 pastoral monitoring.

Stats NZ tools

Agricultural production statistics

Livestock slaughter statistics

Live animal exports

Horticultural statistics

Pipfruit

Viticulture

Kiwifruit

Arable

Apiculture

Horticulture, Arable and Apiculture Monitoring – 2012

Pastoral monitoring

MPI pastoral monitoring – 2012

Dairy

Deer

Sheep and beef

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MPI statistics and links

MPI business units