Broadacre

The word broadacre is an Australian term used to describe land suitable for farms practicing large-scale crop (agriculture) 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, these crops are farmed across more than 200,000 km².

Broadacre is defined also as land parcels greater than 4,000 m² and certain land-use criteria for all government land designated for release and future urban zoned land.

References

• Advances in broadacre. Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.: Rhone-Poulenc, 1999.
• Analysis of broadacre land in the Adelaide and Outer Adelaide Statistical Divisions.

External links

• Sustainable Broadacre Cropping. Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA)