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Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2015

Published: 12 June 2015
ISBN: 9781785443367

Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2015 presenting an overall picture of Scottish agriculture using data from the various agricultural surveys that RESAS manage.

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Table C4 Number of holdings with crops and grass and area of crops and grass by region and sub-region, June 2014

	North West					North East		South East			South East		South West
	Total	Shetland	Orkney	Eileanan an Iar	Highland	Total	Grampian	Total	Tayside	Fife	Lothian	Scottish Borders	Total	East Central	Argyll & Bute	Clyde Valley	Ayrshire	Dumfries & Galloway	Scotland
Crops and fallow:	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings
Wheat	110	0	c	c	c	544	544	1,655	619	347	304	385	403	64	9	66	84	180	2,712
Barley: Winter	80	0	7	0	73	635	635	956	313	191	174	278	307	c	c	58	66	142	1,978
Spring	1,094	c	431	c	640	2,848	2,848	2,501	1,236	440	358	467	1,327	c	c	296	305	457	7,770
Total	1,108	c	436	c	649	2,936	2,936	2,729	1,277	483	403	566	1,408	189	91	318	320	490	8,181
Oats, triticale and mixed grain	391	21	35	135	200	318	318	641	225	139	62	215	258	105	6	39	21	87	1,608
Rape for oilseed and linseed	82	c	0	c	c	389	389	734	301	101	133	199	30	16	0	c	c	8	1,235
Potatoes	819	64	103	290	362	513	513	1,238	831	191	98	118	116	9	18	20	35	34	2,686
Peas and beans for combining	14	0	0	6	8	14	14	169	48	35	27	59	25	15	0	c	c	c	222
Stockfeeding crops	716	88	156	64	408	779	779	608	241	74	65	228	620	41	55	114	105	305	2,723
Vegetables for human consumption	431	36	38	136	221	292	292	783	453	155	76	99	133	12	34	26	32	29	1,639
Orchard and soft fruit	194	c	c	47	140	88	88	149	80	22	18	29	97	c	c	37	13	23	528
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	43	c	c	11	24	39	39	83	55	9	13	6	40	c	c	9	8	c	205
All other crops	695	45	164	97	389	707	707	988	385	156	149	298	479	64	48	105	94	168	2,869
Fallow land: 5 years or less	302	5	13	55	229	859	859	850	387	196	139	128	165	38	10	41	29	47	2,176
more than 5 years	258	6	31	87	134	156	156	174	81	36	27	30	115	14	14	31	32	24	703
Total crops and fallow	3,204	204	639	690	1,671	3,722	3,722	3,736	1,661	645	571	859	2,531	324	220	549	527	911	13,193
Grass and rough grazing:
Grass under 5 years old	4,793	247	835	1,135	2,576	4,473	4,473	4,001	1,655	649	607	1,090	4,456	536	394	c	c	1,655	17,723
Grass 5 years old and over	13,903	1,433	1,456	4,250	6,764	5,984	5,984	6,717	2,533	1,100	1,043	2,041	10,686	1,156	1,421	2,488	2,233	3,388	37,290
Sole right grazing	10,798	1,272	1,000	2,858	5,668	3,399	3,399	3,076	1,232	476	447	921	5,611	503	1,329	1,142	978	1,659	22,884
Common grazing	1,051	162	21	318	550	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	68	0	59	c	c	0	1,125
Total grass and rough grazing	20,908	1,965	1,941	6,610	10,392	8,244	8,244	8,403	3,281	1,390	1,359	2,373	13,135	1,437	1,961	3,031	2,709	3,997	50,690
Utilised Agricultural Area (UAA)⁽³⁾	21,266	1,975	1,979	6,705	10,607	8,635	8,635	8,919	3,565	1,467	1,451	2,436	13,341	1,471	1,985	3,088	2,762	4,035	52,161
Woodland	2,438	48	53	167	2,170	2,603	2,603	3,191	1,057	443	517	1,174	4,041	500	580	893	757	1,311	12,273
Other land	6,583	800	814	1,280	3,689	4,001	4,001	4,304	1,690	674	655	1,285	6,460	701	1,043	1,381	1,269	2,066	21,348
Total agricultural area	21,569	1,980	2,005	6,734	10,850	8,861	8,861	9,230	3,668	1,534	1,518	2,510	13,714	1,528	2,037	3,210	2,833	4,106	53,374
Crops and fallow:	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares
Wheat	3,547	0	c	c	c	16,744	16,744	80,631	24,504	15,681	17,681	22,765	8,102	2,289	83	1,067	1,229	3,434	109,023
Barley: Winter	1,549	0	26	0	1,523	20,137	20,137	25,906	7,277	4,793	5,133	8,702	4,916	c	c	785	784	2,573	52,507
Spring	27,592	c	4,333	c	23,173	113,346	113,346	105,049	54,835	17,684	14,497	18,033	28,391	c	c	6,069	5,587	9,290	274,377
Total	29,140	c	4,359	c	24,696	133,483	133,483	130,954	62,112	22,477	19,630	26,735	33,307	6,576	1,644	6,854	6,371	11,863	326,884
Oats, triticale and mixed grain	2,567	18	163	278	2,108	4,679	4,679	15,400	4,811	3,923	1,216	5,449	3,571	1,849	24	407	125	1,166	26,216
Rape for oilseed and linseed	1,985	c	0	c	c	11,946	11,946	22,525	7,671	2,793	4,781	7,280	685	372	0	c	c	228	37,140
Potatoes	1,585	21	30	32	1,503	5,675	5,675	20,568	13,834	2,976	1,593	2,165	683	37	9	65	338	234	28,511
Peas and beans for combining	118	0	0	0	118	134	134	2,767	664	444	451	1,208	362	178	0	c	c	c	3,381
Stockfeeding crops	2,466	97	669	50	1,651	4,408	4,408	5,662	1,791	574	792	2,505	6,037	300	377	1,008	920	3,431	18,574
Vegetables for human consumption	507	34	11	13	448	2,127	2,127	13,435	7,973	2,449	1,228	1,786	194	46	7	69	58	14	16,262
Orchard and soft fruit	35	c	c	3	32	41	41	635	557	50	15	12	46	c	c	29	2	10	757
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	59	c	c	1	56	397	397	705	650	9	44	2	114	c	c	10	8	c	1,276
All other crops	762	16	200	16	530	2,144	2,144	4,689	2,493	683	436	1,078	1,490	271	54	473	194	496	9,085
Fallow land: 5 years or less	840	7	44	74	715	2,424	2,424	3,235	1,415	769	515	536	948	193	80	281	250	146	7,447
more than 5 years	2,575	11	235	180	2,149	611	611	888	375	131	259	123	390	65	26	92	166	41	4,463
Total crops and fallow	46,186	287	5,713	650	39,536	184,810	184,810	302,093	128,849	52,958	48,641	71,645	55,930	12,179	2,312	10,462	9,717	21,260	589,018
Grass and rough grazing:
Grass under 5 years old	58,142	899	16,858	1,318	39,067	125,760	125,760	106,684	35,454	13,827	13,055	44,348	135,156	11,936	10,282	c	c	66,279	425,742
Grass 5 years old and over	182,239	26,462	32,821	23,455	99,501	71,230	71,230	189,975	62,836	17,430	25,348	84,361	438,944	38,546	56,520	83,401	95,013	165,464	882,387
Sole right grazing	1,535,015	53,915	34,194	58,298	1,388,608	214,035	214,035	536,343	357,796	4,399	31,223	142,926	771,461	106,745	342,571	76,545	87,341	158,261	3,056,855
Common grazing⁽²⁾	568,957	66,629	2,294	216,162	283,872	5,028	5,028	0	0	0	0	0	10,278	0	8,940	c	c	0	584,263
Total grass and rough grazing	2,344,352	147,904	86,167	299,233	1,811,048	416,053	416,053	833,002	456,086	35,656	69,626	271,634	1,355,840	157,227	418,312	182,523	207,775	390,003	4,949,247
Utilised Agricultural Area (UAA)⁽³⁾	2,390,538	148,191	91,880	299,883	1,850,585	600,864	600,864	1,135,095	584,935	88,614	118,266	343,280	1,411,769	169,405	420,624	192,985	217,492	411,263	5,538,265
Woodland	173,878	34	60	1,004	172,780	70,423	70,423	94,030	44,774	5,759	10,690	32,808	141,029	19,533	49,219	17,405	19,336	35,535	479,359
Other land	81,959	1,170	914	1,412	78,463	17,776	17,776	18,219	9,497	1,787	2,517	4,418	44,653	3,418	19,313	5,308	6,343	10,272	162,607
Total agricultural area	2,646,375	149,395	92,854	302,299	2,101,827	689,062	689,062	1,247,343	639,205	96,159	131,473	380,506	1,597,451	192,356	489,155	215,698	243,171	457,070	6,180,231

(1) Includes lupins and maize.

(2) Inclusion of common grazing land brings total agricultural area in Scotland to a higher level than that published in the June agricultural census.

(3) Utilised agricultural area excludes woodland and other land such as yards and derelict land etc.

c data suppressed to prevent disclosure of individual holdings.

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Table C4 Number of holdings with crops and grass and area of crops and grass by region and sub-region, June 2014

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