Agriculture, forestry and fishing: company insolvencies in Australia
In Agriculture, forestry and fishing, 184 companies entered external administration in 2025-26, 1.3% of the year's total.
That was up 5.7% on 2024-25.
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
ASIC's statistics are not exhaustive. They are based on the information available to ASIC at the time of publication.
In 2024-25, administrators' reports in Agriculture, forestry and fishing most often named inadequate cash flow or high cash use (58.5%) and poor strategic management of business (57.5%).
- Inadequate cash flow or high cash use: 58.5%
- Poor strategic management of business: 57.5%
- Trading losses: 52.8%
- Other: 44.3%
- Under capitalisation: 36.8%
- Poor financial control including lack of records: 31.1%
- Poor economic conditions: 18.9%
- Natural disaster: 7.5%
- Poor management of accounts receivable: 4.7%
- Dispute among directors: 2.8%
- Fraud: 0.9%
- Industry restructuring: 0.9%
- Business restructuring: 0.0%
- DOCA failed: 0.0%
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 3.1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
See business exits in Agriculture, forestry and fishing, every business that stopped trading, from ABS data.
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