Broadacre

This article is about a designation of land in Australia. For other uses, see Broadacre, Ohio; 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, 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)