Sheep, beef cattle, and grain farming
Covers sheep farming (specialised); beef cattle farming (specialised); beef cattle feedlots (specialised); sheep-beef cattle farming; grain-sheep or grain-beef cattle farming; rice growing; other grain growing; sugar cane growing; cotton growing; other crop growing nec.
Who it buys from
Share of everything it buys, year to March 2020. Click an industry to see its profile.
Who buys from it
Share of its output. Blue: households, government, investment and exports; grey: other industries.
Where each $100 goes
Including what its suppliers, and their suppliers, pay out (cumulated primary input coefficients), year to March 2020.
What it exports
Where it goes
Goods exports in the year to September 2026, shared out to industries by the products they make (input-output supply table) and to countries by HS heading.
Its prices
Annual % change, Stats NZ producers price index for sheep & beef cattle farming.
Its emissions
Kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent a year (Stats NZ environmental accounts).
Government support
Plus $1,111m of support for agriculture, forestry and fishing as a whole since 2009 ($214m in 2024/25), not attributed to particular industries.
Spending in Treasury's Estimates targeted at this industry, by fiscal year ending June, classified by the nz-industrial-policy project. Totals aren't adjusted for inflation, and the latest years are estimates, not final figures. Broad measures such as the R&D Tax Incentive aren't included.
Over time
Stats NZ publishes these for broader groups than the input-output tables, so each chart names the group it covers.
Output of agriculture
$ billion a year, inflation-adjusted (chain volume, seasonally adjusted)
The Quarterly Employment Survey doesn't cover agriculture, so there's no pay history here. Monthly tax data counts 97,943 filled jobs in agriculture, forestry and fishing in September 2026.
About these numbers
Industry here is one of the 109 industries in Stats NZ's input-output tables (working industries AA121). Buying and selling, and where each $100 goes, come from those tables for the year to March 2020, the latest published.
Exports are this year's goods exports, shared out to industries: each HS code is matched to input-output products (through the UN's product classification), then split between the industries that make each product, in proportion to how much they make. Services exports are shown from the input-output tables.
Output, jobs and pay are for the broader group shown on each chart. Prices use the most detailed producers price index that covers the industry. Emissions are Stats NZ's annual figures for the industry's working industries; per $100 of output uses the 2020 emissions and the input-output tables' output.
Sources: Stats NZ input-output tables, overseas merchandise trade, GDP, business price indexes, greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household), Quarterly Employment Survey; Treasury Estimates of Appropriations via the nz-industrial-policy project; UN Statistics Division correspondence tables.