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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.

Supporting documents

Table C2 Crops, grass and rough grazings for each United Kingdom country, June 2014

	Scotland	England	Wales	Northern Ireland	United Kingdom
Number of holdings⁽¹⁾	52,277	102,836	35,253	24,228	214,594
Crops, fallow and set-aside:	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares
Wheat	109,023	1,796,730	21,486	8,498	1,935,737
Triticale	519	9,811	:	40	:
Barley: Winter	52,507	363,227	6,580	6,709	429,023
Spring	274,377	345,476	14,103	16,846	650,802
Total	326,884	708,703	20,683	23,555	1,079,826
Oats (including mixed grain)⁽²⁾	25,697	119,067	6,133	2,086	152,983
Rape for oilseed (including flax⁽³⁾ and linseed)	37,140	646,118	5,433	494	689,185
Potatoes	28,511	105,056	2,775	4,188	140,529
Peas for combining	616	30,710	:	:	:
Beans for combining⁽⁴⁾	2,765	103,482	617	:	:
Maize	1,319	171,165	9,372	1,598	183,453
Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding	4,561	:	:	549	:
Other crops for stockfeeding⁽⁵⁾	12,694	41,245	15,185	4,668	190,085
Vegetables for human consumption	16,262	97,921	617	1,332	116,132
Orchard and soft fruit	757	29,783	733	1,533	32,806
Bulbs, other flowers and nursery stock	1,276	10,287	314	146	12,023
All other crops	9,085	139,454	1,949	1,099	151,587
Fallow land	11,910	146,305	939	1,015	160,169
Total crops and fallow	589,018	4,155,838	86,698	50,800	4,882,384
Grass:
Under 5 years	425,742	671,381	152,571	146,199	1,395,893
5 years and over	882,387	3,252,151	1,047,916	641,833	5,824,287
Total grass	1,308,129	3,923,532	1,200,487	788,032	7,220,181
Total crops, fallow and grass	1,897,147	8,079,370	1,287,215	838,832	12,102,565
Rough grazing:
Sole right grazing	3,056,855	476,211	257,055	140,147	3,930,268
Common grazing⁽⁶⁾	584,263	398,947	180,305	35,631	1,199,146
Total rough grazing	3,641,118	875,158	437,360	175,778	5,129,414
Total crops, fallow, grass and rough grazing (UAA)⁽⁷⁾	5,538,265	8,954,528	1,724,575	1,014,610	17,231,978
Woodland	479,359	331,316	75,703	11,091	897,469
Other land	162,607	145,976	11,391	6,734	326,708
Total agricultural area	6,180,231	9,431,820	1,811,669	1,032,435	18,456,155
Total land area⁽⁸⁾	7,880,998	13,045,939	2,078,224	1,412,972	24,418,133
% land agricultural	78%	72%	87%	73%	76%

(1) Refers only to holdings actively engaged in agriculture but excludes sheep stock clubs and landless cattle keepers in Scotland and non-commercial holdings in England.

(2) Includes rye for England and Wales and triticale for Wales.

(3) Flax not collected for Scotland. Figure for Scotland includes linseed.

(4) Wales figures includes peas for combining

(5) Includes lupins. Wales figure included turnips, swede and beet for stock feeding

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

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

(8) Data source: UK Standard Area Measurements (SAM) as at December 2014, published by Office for National Statistics.

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