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Elders is a significant supplier of farm inputs to primary producers in Australia. Products include seeds, fertilizer, agricultural chemicals, animal health products and general rural merchandise. The company also supplies professional and technical services to the rural sector via a network of agronomists. [26]
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for horses, or as working farms for secondary income.
In the 1970s or 1980s the SA Government released a plan for the area to feature a new satellite city, [citation needed] to relieve the pressure on the expanding capital Adelaide, to the south. The family farm of J H (Gordon) Fischer was subdivided and sold in smaller hobby farm allotments. A number of the original farm structures remain.
[citation needed] It may also refer to a lifestyle choice or "hobby farm" for those with an independent source of income. In parts of Australia, parcels of land of around 6 to 20 acres (2 to 8 ha) were allocated by Government to working-class men at nominal rent during the depression of the 1890s with the object of giving them work and ...
Anna Creek Station in South Australia is the world's largest working cattle station. [3] It is roughly 24,000 square kilometres (9,300 sq mi); [ 4 ] much larger than the runner-up, Clifton Hills , another South Australian cattle station spanning 17,000 square kilometres (6,600 sq mi); and substantially larger than America's biggest ranch ( King ...
In 1992, the South Australian Department of Agriculture, the Department of Fisheries, and the Department of Woods and Forests merged to form Primary Industries South Australia (PISA). [12] In 1996–1997, the name of Mines and Energy South Australia was changed to Mines and Energy Resources South Australia ( MERSA ).
The Murray Mallee is a grain-growing and sheep-farming area in the east of the Australian state of South Australia.The name is not formally designated but is widely used to refer to an area of approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7700 square miles) bounded by the River Murray [note 1] on its northern and western sides, the Victorian border on its eastern side, and up to about 50 kilometres ...
Agriculture's farm gate output was $100 billion a year for a 5.7% share of GDP in 2023 [2]. Farmers and grazers own 135,997 farms, covering 61% of Australia's landmass. [3] Across the country, there is a mix of irrigation and dry-land farming. The success of Australia in becoming a major agricultural power despite the odds is facilitated by its ...