Talk:Agriculture in Australia
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Sugar, Sugar, baby
I want to add a thing on sugar, but I know little botanical/horticultural clasisfication. (Monocot, Dicot, Gymnosperm & Angio is about as far as I go). So i don't know whether sugar industry should be a seperate heading (probably should be anyway its big enough) or mentioned in Horticulture.
Also pineapples, Where would they go?--ZayZayEM 05:12, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Sugar falls under crops in the stats, technically sugar is a grass (monocot) so a subsection in crops would be a good place for sugar. Pineapples are definatley a horticultural crop --nixie 05:23, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Page missing a critical component of agriculture
There's not a word here on beekeeping, although I know Australia has at least one world-renouned expert on pollination management. A number of crops are not possible without contract pollination. I understand there is also a lot of research on the use of native bees for managed pollination. Can someone supply the missing info? Pollinator 00:51, September 13, 2005 (UTC)
Sheep station/Cattle station
There we have the great iconic landuse of rangelands and dammed if I can see anything about it in this art? If nobody replies on this one will try to insert somewhere.vcxlor 08:39, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not sure, but I think there is a distinction between agricultural land (i.e land that supports plants that will be harvested) and
pastoral land (i.e. land that supports plants that will be grazed by stock). Sheep / cattle stations are indeed an iconic Australian landuse, and there's a lot to say about them. I wonder if it wouldn't be best said in a separate article; perhaps Pastoralism in Australia. That would give me a better place to link "Pastoralist" to ;-) Snottygobble | Talk 12:24, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
- It's all agriculture, and thus some comment on the big cattle stations belongs here. --Robert Merkel 23:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, very important to have some mention of cattle and sheep stations here, but that does not preclude a separate rangeland/pastoralism in australia article - like x% of australian landmass is taken up by them, and this is after all an encyc.vcxlor 01:55, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Wool is missing
The section Major agricultural products does not list wool in the top ten. This does not appear consistent with ABARE livestock (PDF). --Scott Davis Talk 05:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- The most recent stats are here if someone wants to update it.--Peta 06:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Updated, fruit and nuts and vegitables were also missing.Charles Esson 20:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Soap box
I am reverting animal welfare back to pre Russel dyer. It's an Encyclopedia not a soap box. Removing the bit about it not being as emotive as European Union. That is a Judgement that I see hard to justify for an encyclopedia and a red rag to a bull if someone is emotiive on the issue. Charles Esson 20:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC).
Animal welfare is important but so are many other issues, it belongs in a section on it's own. Needs to be a paragraph on hens, that has been a constant battle and a interesting one as it is forcing change in industry practice. I tried to create a balanced view and put it in one section. Charles Esson 20:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)