Farm in SE Australia is growing native grains for flour and bread

Re:Farm in SE Australia is growing native grains for flour a... by danieltillett on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:24AM (#23165062)

Yes but they are not productive. The yield of grain is not commercially viable. It is much better to use these lands for grazing stock - in an ideal world native stock.

I have my doubts as to the existence of indigenous agricultural - this doesn’t mean that aboriginal people didn’t do things that had some similarities to farming, just that they never stepped over the line and became farmers.

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Re:Farm in SE Australia is growing native grains for flour a... by prawn on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:34AM (#23166715)

I think I get Daniel's point. I'm inclined to favour seeing that outback land turned over to something other than grazing, but what? It's remote, dry, broad, etc. Those grazing animals are essentially autonomous bots harvesting disparate clumps of feed - like a hay that bales itself (as meat).

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