Abstract
Summary A major scheme for restructuring the rural landscape was implemented in the drought and erosion prone margins of wheat cultivation in South Australia between 1939 and 1961. It was a planned abandonment of farms by halving the number of holdings and doubling the size of the remainder. The origins and working of the Marginal Lands Scheme are examined and an appraisal made of its geographical impact on the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. Since 1961 farm enlargement by voluntary unplanned aggregation of holdings and scattered blocks has accelerated. Further enlargement is needed to satisfy new concepts of an adequate ‘home maintenance area’. The inertia of rural planning is underlined by these changes.
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