Broadacre

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

* [http://www.asdd.sa.gov.au/asdd/ANZSA1032000096.html Advances in broadacre. Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.: Rhone-Poulenc, 1999] .
* [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] .
* [http://www.growcom.com.au/VegUpdate/ClientViewDocumentPrint.asp?which=268 Frank Hay (c2004). Bark residue as a soil amendment in broadacre intensive vegetable production] .

External links

* [http://www.wantfa.com.au/ Sustainable Broadacre Cropping. Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA)]


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