Today, farms which employed hundreds of labourers at the turn of the century are operated by a few people with the help of sophisticated machinery and technology. Large scale farming and grazing relied upon the availability of large numbers of unskilled workers.
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At the turn of the century, much of the energy used to operate farms came from manual labour, assisted where possible with horse, bullock and steam power. Like most industries, Australian agriculture has experienced unforeseen gains in productivity and output, through the application of new technology and science over the last 100 years. As the head of economic statistics work in that Office he oversighted the establishment there of the Agriculture National Project Centre, which is responsible for the collection, compilation and dissemination of agriculture statistics for Australia.
This article was contributed by John Pollard, recently retired after a long, distinguished career in the ABS Tasmanian Office.
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