This issue shows four of Australia's largest native horticultural industries: eucalyptus oil, honey, macadamia nuts and tea tree oil. All four commercially cultivated industries have an export market.

Issue Information
This issue consists of four stamps available in gummed sheets and self-adhesive booklets and coils.

Gummed Sheet Stamps
Sheets consisted of 10 horizontal strips of four, with an additional eucalyptus stamp on the end.

Sheet stamps

Strip of five showing layout of stamps

There appears to be a font 'error' where the font used for the inscriptions on the honey and tea tree oil stamps is different to the eucalyptus and macadamia stamps. This is particularly noticeable with the 'a' and 'l' which have a 'swash' on the end (on the eucalyptus and macadamia stamps), while these are missing on the other two. No stamps appear to be printed with the other font.

Difference in fonts used, particularly with the 'a' and 'Oil'

Gummed Gutter Strips
The gutter strip features images of the four products.

Gutter strip

Gummed Sheetlets
Accompanying this issue was a sheetlet of 10 Eucalyptus stamps infused with the smell of eucalyptus oil. There is very little difference between the regular sheet and sheetlet stamps (except the stamp is a little darker). To ensure you have a 'infused' stamp, they should be collected either as an entire sheet, as horizontal pairs or with the selvedge attached. The selvedge of the sheetlet stamps is either blank or shows gum leaves; the sheet selvedge shows the stamp design continuing into the selvedge.

This sheetlet was only sold in packs at $6.45 (45c above face value, and the cost of the pack). No single stamps were sold by the post office.

It was later discovered that this stamp was printed by Ego Print, who pitched the idea of using 'Scentprint Varnish' to Australia Post.

Single stamp from sheetlet of 10

Sheet stamp (left) and sheetlet stamp (right)
Notice how the stamp design continues into the selvedge on the sheet stamp, but not the sheetlet stamp.

Sheetlet of ten stamps

Multisheet Stamps
As part of the Impressions range, Australia Post released its first Multisheets. The four Farming stamps were included in the Multisheet containing all the horizontal commemorative stamps released during 2011.

Horizontal commemorative Multisheet

The stamps in the Multisheet are new for two reasons - the sheets are printed by RA Printing, and the text on the stamps is noticeably thinner, as shown in the image below.

Enlarged inscription from regular sheet stamp (top) and Multisheet stamp (bottom)

Self-adhesive Coil Stamps
Self-adhesive stamps were issued in coils of 100 and booklets of 10. Stamps from both sources are identical.

Self-adhesive coil stamps

Self-adhesive Booklet Stamps
Self-adhesive stamps were issued in coils of 100 and booklets of 10. Stamps from both sources are identical.

Booklet stamps

Self-adhesive Booklets
Booklets were distributed to post offices in chequebooks of 20 booklets. These are not listed on this website.

Booklet layout

Booklet cover (philatelic)

Postal Stationery
A set of four maximum cards accompanied this issue.

Maximum Cards (image from Australia Post website)

Issue Summary
The table below summarises the above information. The cost of each item is given, along with a total for each section. In some cases the stamps are only available from self-adhesive booklets (sold at face value), or from prestige booklets, souvenir sheets or folders (sold above face value).

Item and Description	Cost
For the General Collector
Gummed sheet stamps
Horizontal se-tenant strip (4 x 60c)	$2.40
Self-adhesive stamps
Strip of 4 from coil (4 x 60c)	$2.40
Total	$4.80
For the Specialised Collector
Sheetlet stamp
Eucalyptus stamp from scratch and sniff sheetlet	$6.45
Multisheet stamp
Farming stamps from Multisheets	$89.95
Gutter Strips
Gutter strip of 10 (native plant products)	$6.00
Small sheets
Sheetlet of 10 Eucalyptus scented stamps	$6.45
Booklets
Booklet with philatelic barcode	$6.00
Booklet with general barcode	$6.00
Postal stationery
Maximum cards	$5.40
Total	$126.25
Grand Total	$131.05

References
Australia Post, Australian Stamp Bulletin, No. 310, May-June 2011

If you have more information, or spot an error, please e-mail me.