Broadacre

Higher prices for most major broadacre commodities, including wheat, wool and beef, contributed to a large increase in profits for the majority of Australia′s broadacre farms in 2001-02.

The survey covers broadacre agriculture across all of Australia (see Figure 20.1), but excludes small and hobby farms.

Broadacre organic farmers − farmers of sheep, beef and cereals − of the inland and the semiarid interior were particularly active in adapting organic production methods to Australian conditions.