Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2015
Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2015 presenting an overall picture of Scottish agriculture using data from the various agricultural surveys that RESAS manage.
Table C27 Number of tractors, and other machinery, on main holdings December 2004-2014(1)
Number
| Machinery type |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracked tractors |
251 |
315 |
379 |
465 |
759 |
654 |
803 |
604 |
579 |
706 |
561 |
| Wheeled tractors |
43,874 |
42,614 |
42,827 |
41,985 |
42,173 |
41,997 |
42,190 |
40,224 |
40,683 |
40,008 |
39,672 |
| Transport(2) (5) |
19,278 |
20,902 |
21,509 |
22,221 |
21,758 |
23,246 |
22,967 |
24,278 |
23,802 |
24,197 |
27,687 |
| Harrows and other cultivators(3) (6) |
: |
24,692 |
: |
23,712 |
: |
23,253 |
: |
22,080 |
: |
21,049 |
: |
| Sowing(3) (7) |
: |
8,728 |
: |
7,855 |
: |
7,803 |
: |
7,386 |
: |
6,753 |
: |
| Mowers, rakes, and potato harvesters(3) (8) |
: |
31,619 |
: |
30,580 |
: |
29,241 |
: |
28,660 |
: |
26,378 |
: |
| Load handling(3) (9) |
: |
51,625 |
: |
50,771 |
: |
50,966 |
: |
51,225 |
: |
49,405 |
: |
| Mounted hedge cutters(3) |
: |
1,192 |
: |
833 |
: |
843 |
: |
910 |
: |
1,068 |
: |
| Cattle weighing crushes(3) |
: |
2,604 |
: |
2,442 |
: |
2,315 |
: |
2,491 |
: |
2,271 |
: |
| Ploughs and rollers(4) |
28,564 |
: |
26,461 |
: |
24,325 |
: |
24,047 |
: |
23,441 |
: |
21,848 |
| Fertilization(4) (10) |
24,560 |
: |
23,862 |
: |
22,112 |
: |
21,873 |
: |
21,184 |
: |
20,005 |
| Forage and combine harvesters(4) (11) |
22,385 |
: |
20,316 |
: |
19,116 |
: |
18,777 |
: |
18,089 |
: |
17,110 |
| Drying and storage(4) (12) |
5,252 |
: |
4,793 |
: |
4,684 |
: |
4,365 |
: |
4,142 |
: |
3,882 |
| Miscellaneous(4) (13) |
26,320 |
: |
25,419 |
: |
23,640 |
: |
23,332 |
: |
22,494 |
: |
20,153 |
(1) Excludes minor holdings.
(2) Question was asked slightly differently in odd and even years, reducing comparability. Question was standardised in 2014.
(3) Data only collected in odd years.
(4) Data only collected in even years.
(5) Includes land rovers, lorries, vans, pick-ups, and all-terrain vehicles.
(6) Includes stone separators, harrows, hoes, rotary diggers, and other mounted or trailed cultivators.
(7) Includes seed drills, seedling transplanters, and potato planters.
(8) Includes mowers, mower conditioners, tedders, turners, siderakes, buckrakes, potato harvesters, and potato graders.
(9) Includes fork lift trucks, general purpose tractor trailers, wheeled automatic bale accumulators and packers, and linkage or loader attachments for bale handling.
(10) Includes mechanical dung spreaders, slurry and effluent tankers, and fertilizer distributors.
(11) Includes forage harvesters, combine harvesters, turnip and forage root harvesters, and balers.
(12) Includes grain driers, and mobile engine driven fans.
(13) Includes feed mills, feed mixers, field crop/fruit sprayers, drainage equipment, stand-by generators, general purpose elevators, moveable augers, and pneumatic conveyors.
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