agriIQ aggregates 18 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, and credit aggregates. Drives the credit conditions dimension.
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.
Geoscience Australia — Digital Earth Australia
dea.ga.gov.auVisit source →Waterbodies monitoring data providing surface water extent for key agricultural catchments.
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.
agriIQ attributes all data to its original source. Scores and narratives are derived from publicly available government and industry data — no proprietary or personal data is used. If you represent one of these organisations and would like to update your listing or discuss how agriIQ uses your data, please contact us.
agriIQ aggregates data from 18 authoritative Australian government agencies and industry bodies including ABARES, BOM, ABS, RBA, DAFF, MLA, AWI, NASA FIRMS, SILO DataDrill, and DPIRD. All data comes from official APIs and published datasets.
The automated data pipeline runs daily at approximately 7:00 AM AEST. Each of the 18 ingesters refreshes independently. Government sources publish at different frequencies — BOM and MLA daily, ABS quarterly, ABARES periodically. agriIQ always uses the latest available data.
agriIQ scores and narratives are available through the platform. The underlying raw data is sourced from public government APIs — links to each official data portal are provided above. Enterprise API access for agriIQ scores is available on request.
Each ingester validates data against expected ranges before scoring. Failed ingestions retain the previous day's score and are flagged in the daily admin summary. Data freshness is monitored on the data status page.
All data is fetched via official APIs and published datasets. Our automated pipeline refreshes data daily at 20:00 UTC (approximately 7 AM AEST). View data freshness → | Scoring methodology →