agriIQ aggregates 27 authoritative Australian government and industry data sources. All data comes from official APIs and published datasets — we do not fabricate, estimate, or interpolate data unless explicitly labelled.
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
agriculture.gov.au/abares/dataVisit source →Farm surveys, commodity outlooks, production forecasts, agricultural lending data, export statistics. Drives farm profitability and export conditions dimensions.
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
bom.gov.au/climate/dataVisit source →Rainfall data, dam storage levels, seasonal outlooks, and soil moisture indicators. Drives the seasonal conditions dimension.
Reserve Bank of Australia
rba.gov.au/statistics/tablesVisit source →Cash rate, agricultural lending rates, F11 AUD/USD exchange rate, and D14.1 rural lending aggregates. Drives the credit conditions and exchange rate context.
Australian Taxation Office — Farm Management Deposits (via DAFF)
agriculture.gov.au/.../fmd-statisticsVisit source →Quarterly national Farm Management Deposit balances and account counts. Tracks farmer cash reserves — a load-bearing input to the credit health context.
Yahoo Finance v8 chart endpoint — CME/ICE soft-commodity futures
query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8Visit source →Daily closing prices for the front-month CME wheat (ZW=F), corn (ZC=F), soybean (ZS=F), and ICE cotton (CT=F) and sugar (SB=F) futures. Combined with AUD/USD to derive Australian port-zone grain prices.
ABARES Australian Crop Report — XLSX edition
agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/agricultural-outlook/australian-crop-reportVisit source →Quarterly area, yield, and production forecasts for Australian winter and summer crops by state. Covers wheat, barley, canola, sorghum, cotton, rice, and chickpeas plus reference crops.
Queensland Government — SILO climate database
siloapi.longpaddock.qld.gov.auVisit source →Authoritative gridded daily rainfall, evaporation, temperature, and vapour-pressure-deficit time series for all 55+ SA4 agricultural sub-regions. Drives the climate-stress context for sa4_summary narratives.
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-tradeVisit source →Biosecurity alerts for animal and plant health, including per-commodity risk status. Drives the biosecurity dimension.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
api.data.abs.gov.auVisit source →Producer Price Index (PPI) and merchandise trade exports by commodity group via the SDMX API. Drives input cost pressure and export conditions dimensions.
Meat & Livestock Australia
mla.com.au/prices-marketsVisit source →Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI), Western Young Cattle Indicator (WYCI), Trade Lamb, and Mutton price indicators with daily price history.
Australian Wool Innovation / wool.com
wool.com/market-intelligenceVisit source →Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) for wool prices with daily price history tracking.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — Climate Prediction Center
cpc.ncep.noaa.govVisit source →Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), Nino3.4 sea surface temperature, ENSO phase classification, and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Key climate drivers for Australian seasonal conditions.
Queensland Government — Long Paddock
longpaddock.qld.gov.auVisit source →30-day and 90-day SOI values, Queensland drought declarations by region, and the SILO DataDrill API providing authoritative rainfall data for all 57 SA4 sub-regions.
NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.govVisit source →VIIRS satellite-detected fire hotspots across Australia, updated daily. Provides fire activity counts by state and sub-region.
Open-Meteo Weather API
open-meteo.comVisit source →Soil moisture measurements and supplementary weather data. Provides volumetric soil moisture by state and climate stress indicators (heat stress days, evapotranspiration, VPD) for SA4 sub-regions.
Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
dpird.wa.gov.auVisit source →Weather station rainfall data for five Western Australian SA4 sub-regions.
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
dpi.nsw.gov.auVisit source →NSW Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) providing drought intensity assessments across NSW regions.
WaterNSW, Goulburn-Murray Water (VIC), SA DEW, QLD DNRME
Multiple state water authority portalsWater allocation percentages for general and high-security licences across major irrigation systems in NSW, VIC, SA, and QLD. Tracked daily for irrigation-dependent agricultural regions.
Meat & Livestock Australia — Regional Saleyard Prices
mla.com.au/prices-marketsRegional cattle saleyard prices from major selling centres (Roma, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Hamilton, Naracoorte). Tracked against the EYCI national benchmark to show regional price basis and market variation.
Meat & Livestock Australia Statistics — Australian Slaughter & Production
api-mlastatistics.mla.com.au/report/3Visit source →Quarterly Australian slaughter (000s of head) and meat production (tonnes carcass weight) by species (cattle, cows and heifers, bulls/bullocks/steers, calves, sheep, lambs, pigs, chickens, total red meat) and state. ABS-sourced data delivered via MLA's Statistics API with a ~3–4 month lag from quarter end. Cows-and-heifers slaughter is the load-bearing destocking signal.
Australian Institute of Petroleum — Retail Fuel Prices
aip.com.au/pricingVisit source →National diesel and petrol retail price series. Feeds the input cost pressure dimension alongside ABS PPI data, giving daily visibility of on-farm fuel costs.
Dairy Australia — National Milk Production Statistics
dairyaustralia.com.au/industry-reportsVisit source →Monthly Australian milk production by state (NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS) and national total. Covers cooperative and processor receipts for the dairy season (July–June). Feeds monthly dairy-region context for farm impact and commodity outlook narratives.
Wine Australia — Export and Production Data
wineaustralia.comVisit source →Australian wine export volume, value, and destination data. Used to track wine grape sector conditions and export market performance.
World Bank — Commodity Markets Monthly Pink Sheet
worldbank.org/commodity-marketsVisit source →Monthly international fertiliser prices (DAP, Urea, TSP). Provides timely input cost signals for the input cost pressure dimension, complementing quarterly ABS PPI data.
NASA Terra MODIS MOD13Q1 16-day 250m NDVI (via ORNL DAAC TESViS)
modis.ornl.gov/rst/api/v1/MOD13Q1Visit source →Satellite-derived vegetation greenness index per SA4 region, refreshed every 16 days. Anomaly is computed against a 5-year baseline for the same MODIS DOY — positive anomaly means the region is greener than the 5-year norm at that point in the year. Objective ground-truth complement to rainfall and soil moisture in the seasonal conditions dimension.
NSW Valuer General Property Sales Information (PSI) weekly feed
valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au/__psi/weeklyVisit source →Weekly ZIPs of all NSW property sales. agriIQ aggregates the last 13 weeks of sales zoned RU1 (Primary Production), RU2 (Rural Landscape) and RU4 (Primary Production Small Lots), filtered to 5–10,000 ha, to produce a rolling-quarter median $/ha benchmark. Sidesteps the ABARES Farmland Price Indicator Power BI blocker. VIC and QLD equivalents follow in later Wave 2a sessions.
Australian Bureau of Statistics — Australian Agriculture: Broadacre Crops + Horticulture (successors to the discontinued 7503.0 VACP)
data.api.abs.gov.au/rest/data/ABS,AG_BROADACRE + ABS,AG_HORTICULTUREVisit source →Annual financial-year farm-gate $ revenue by state × commodity. Covers 13 broadacre crops (wheat, barley, canola, sorghum, sugarcane, oats, rice, maize, lupins, chickpeas, lentils, faba beans, field peas) and 4 horticulture crops (avocados, macadamias, bananas, winegrapes). Supply-side truth for farm_profitability — national wheat industry is a $10B+ headline, NSW wheat lifted +33% YoY in FY 2024-25. Livestock is not yet published on SDMX.
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agriIQ aggregates data from 27 authoritative Australian government agencies and industry bodies including ABARES, BOM, ABS, RBA, DAFF, MLA, AWI, NASA FIRMS, NASA MODIS (via ORNL DAAC), SILO DataDrill, DPIRD, AIP, Wine Australia, and the World Bank. All data comes from official APIs and published datasets.
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