Broadacre
In Australia, broadacre 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.
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