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 .
Broadacre is defined also as land parcels greater than 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) Broadacre Crop Protection