(of farming practices or equipment) used in or suitable for large-scale production.
Example sentencesExamples
- Cattle-grazing continues to be the only recognised means for the broadacre utilisation of vast areas of modest to low potential.
- It released figures showing that the average broadacre farmer's fuel bill this year will be $4,000 higher than last year.
- They are being totally unreal as to the existing environmental impacts of the resource extraction called broadacre farming.
- ‘A good autumn break is essential not only for Australia's grain producers, but also for a recovery in pasture production for our broadacre grazing industries,’ he said.
- She said most people involved in the scheme were broadacre farmers who sought a balance between profitable farming and conservation.