Broadacre

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 200000 km2.

Broadacre is defined also as land parcels greater than 4000 m2 and certain land-use criteria for all government land designated for release and future urban zoned land.