The benefits and challenges of crop-livestock integration in Australian agriculture

Integrated crop-livestock farming systems continue to dominate broadacre agriculture in southern and eastern Australia. A shift in the last decade to a more diversified production system based around an increased proportion of cropping is evidence of the flexibility of the farming system to respond to innovation and to economic signals. The nature and extent of changes has been regionally variable, depending on the current production potential of crop and pasture elements and suitability of emerging technologies.

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