WA Grain

The grains industry is the largest agricultural sector in Western Australia delivering around $5.9 billion in grain exports to the state economy each year (5-year average) – with the majority of this coming from cereal production ($4.5 billion) and contributions from oilseeds ($1.3 billion) and legumes ($0.18 billion).

WA produces about 18 million tonnes of grain each year from around 4000 rain-fed farms, most ranging in size from 1000 to 15,000 hectares. Wheat is the state’s major grain crop with about 8-10 million tonnes produced each year followed by barley, canola, oats, lupins and field peas.

The state’s grain production area, known as the ‘wheatbelt’, contains around fifteen million hectares of arable land across the south-west corner of the state. Around nine million hectares of this is cropped each year.

The WA grains industry is export-oriented with 80-90% of annual grain production exported to more than 50 countries worldwide with Asia and the Middle East our largest markets.

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