broadacre

{{about|a designation of land in Australia|other uses|Broadacre, Ohio|and|Broadacre City|and|Broadacres (disambiguation)}}

Broadacre in Australia is land suitable for farms practicing large-scale crop operations. The key crop segments in this category are as follows:

oilseeds - canola, sunflowers
winter and summer cereals - wheat, barley, oats, triticale, sorghum, maize, millets
pulses - lupins, chickpeas, faba beans, field peas, mung beans, soybeans, lentils
sugar cane
rice

Within Australia today,{{When|date=July 2019}} these crops are farmed across more than {{convert|200000|km2}}.

Broadacre is defined also as land parcels greater than {{convert|4000|m2}} and certain land-use criteria for all government land designated for release and future urban zoned land.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070830013744/http://www.asdd.sa.gov.au/asdd/ANZSA1032000096.html Advances in broadacre. Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.: Rhone-Poulenc, 1999].
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070123095056/http://www.planning.sa.gov.au/go/maps-and-data/information-by-themes/land-monitoring/broadacre-land-monitoring Analysis of broadacre land in the Adelaide and Outer Adelaide Statistical Divisions].

External links

[http://www.wantfa.com.au/ Sustainable Broadacre Cropping. Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA)]
[https://www.syngenta.com.au/broadacre Broadacre Crop Protection]

Category:Agriculture in Australia

Category:Land management in Australia