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Australian Farms

There are nearly 136,000 Australian farms producing a wide variety of grains, vegetables and meats. 

Australia is among the world’s largest and most successful and efficient producers of cattle and sheep and a leader in the export of red meat and livestock. The total value of the Australian beef and sheepmeat industry is A$16.1 billion and the industry employs 172,000 people, making it an important part of the Australian economy, as well as an important part Australia’s cultural identity. 

Australian organic farming

Australia has one of the largest areas of certified organic land in the world.  This is helped largely by the extensive agricultural land in Australia, much of which is suitable for low-input farming and organic farming.  Churinga Station is one of the largest certified organic lamb properties in the world.  The station is located 130 kilometres from Broken Hill, near Wilcannia.  Churinga Hill produces sought after organic lamb that is sold into top restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne, to Woolworths for their macro brand and specialty butchers as well as to overseas markets.  Properties like Churinga are well suited to organic production due to the perennial native pastures and vegetation.

Australian organic farming is expected to grow 14% in 2011 and is the fastest growing production industry in the country. 

Australian farm machinery

Whilst organic farms practice low input farming methods, farm sites in more arable areas of the country such as central NSW around Dubbo, Orange and Bathurst use some herbicides, pesticides and Australian farm machinery.  In addition to Australian farm machinery, farm tractors such as those imported from John Deere farm in the United States are used to assist with Australian farm work. 

Farm tractors like the John Deere one are used to sow grain and grasses using a low-till or zero-till method of production.  This means that rather than turning over the topsoil to plant seeds and grasses that the John Deere machine slightly slits the topsoil and inserts the seed.  This has advantages including reducing loss of topsoil and maintaining the carbon that is stored in the soil.  This has benefits both for maintaining biodiversity by having healthy soils and by mitigating climate change by enabling carbon to be absorbed more effectively by soils. 

Australian farm house

Most Australian farmers live on the property that they make their living off.  Often several generations of farmers will live on the one property in a number of Australian farm houses.  Australian farm houses come in all shapes and sizes, as they do in cities, from huge country estates to rustic cottages.  The advantage of living on the Australian farm in an Australian farm house is that you are close to your place of work.  Often though Australian farms are a long distance from towns, so living on the property can be quite isolating.  A strong sense of community exists in farming communities though, so even people that are thousands of kilometres from major towns they generally have close relationships with their neighbours.

Australian farm work

Living at work as is the case for many farmers often means that it’s hard to leave the farm work behind at the end of each day and on the weekends.  Livestock farmers work incredibly long and tiring days, tending to their animals, mending fences, buying new animals, looking after the grasses and soils and managing the business.  Australian farm sites often also make great holiday locations, so some farmers choose to run Australian farm tourism on their Australian sites for an extra income stream.  Often there are a number of houses on an Australian farm site, so one may be used for farm stays for city people or overseas holiday makers.

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