It has been widely suggested that changing land use from annual to perennial crops reduces land and stream degradation due to salinization. However, annual crops are financially attractive and increases in perennials can reduce stream flows with adverse effects on stream values. As such,...

This study analyses the financial risk faced by representative mixed-enterprise farm businesses in four regions of south-eastern Australia. It uses discrete stochastic programming to optimise the ten-year cash flow margins produced by these farms, operating three alternative farming systems....