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Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2011 Edition

Published: 15 June 2011
ISBN: 9781780452111

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Table C4 Number of holdings with crops and grass and area of crops and grass by regional grouping and region, June 2010

	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
	North West					North East		South East					South West
Crops and fallow:	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings
Wheat	123	0	*	*	113	590	590	1,691	672	341	303	375	384	81	8	68	67	160	2,788
Triticale	*	0	*	0	*	*	*	31	12	*	5	*	25	*	0	*	*	17	69
Barley: Winter	66	0	16	0	50	643	643	835	255	177	148	255	357	42	*	*	88	168	1,901
Spring	1,148	*	487	*	639	2,722	2,722	2,458	1,210	426	359	463	1,444	183	94	322	338	507	7,772
Total	1,164	*	493	*	649	2,850	2,850	2,674	1,261	465	395	553	1,535	196	94	340	348	557	8,223
Oats (including mixed grain)	475	22	30	148	275	415	415	555	209	114	41	191	237	101	9	41	16	70	1,682
Rape for oilseed and linseed	71	*	0	*	*	432	432	705	289	102	130	184	24	9	0	0	*	12	1,232
Potatoes	907	68	124	324	391	576	576	1,389	889	235	140	125	162	16	28	22	40	56	3,034
Peas and beans for combining	21	0	*	0	*	50	50	318	70	83	51	114	46	30	0	*	*	11	435
Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding	425	38	56	33	298	574	574	287	138	53	22	74	166	17	15	29	52	53	1,452
Other crops for stockfeeding ⁽¹⁾	435	76	110	38	211	372	372	584	261	48	63	212	624	48	51	102	94	329	2,015
Vegetables for human consumption	573	36	35	209	293	261	261	819	497	144	89	89	144	14	34	32	25	39	1,797
Orchard and soft fruit	202	*	*	47	148	84	84	178	112	27	18	21	94	5	12	42	13	22	558
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	*	*	*	12	32	*	*	71	39	*	13	*	47	*	*	14	8	9	208
All other crops	459	18	128	58	255	630	630	844	321	134	134	255	411	73	37	103	67	131	2,344
Fallow land: 5 years or less	725	13	48	201	463	1,128	1,128	1,125	520	244	187	174	348	67	33	105	65	78	3,326
More than 5 years	571	13	48	195	315	272	272	230	108	54	38	30	221	20	31	75	52	43	1,294
Total crops and fallow	3,430	188	687	761	1,794	3,753	3,753	3,823	1,720	660	595	848	2,728	356	236	618	542	976	13,734
Grass and rough grazing:
Grass under 5 years old	6,110	292	993	1,702	3,123	*	*	*	*	769	724	1,200	4,876	596	402	*	*	1,655	20,917
Grass 5 years old and over	13,905	1,476	1,464	4,322	6,643	6,010	6,010	6,532	2,458	998	1,069	2,007	10,669	1,126	1,398	2,504	2,270	3,371	37,116
Sole right grazing	10,105	1,272	924	2,451	5,458	3,459	3,459	3,108	1,229	546	410	923	5,548	519	1,290	1,159	989	1,591	22,220
Common grazing	1,032	159	19	309	545	*	*	*	*	0	0	0	69	0	60	*	*	0	1,108
Total grass and rough grazing	21,485	2,053	1,995	6,739	10,698	8,619	8,619	8,776	3,529	1,441	1,446	2,360	13,319	1,459	1,997	3,125	2,747	3,991	52,199
Woodland	1,980	52	54	124	1,750	2,216	2,216	2,614	852	383	432	947	3,488	434	472	804	655	1,123	10,298
Other land	4,109	435	658	631	2,385	3,486	3,486	3,437	1,319	556	584	978	5,188	571	932	1,203	926	1,556	16,220
Total agricultural area	21,752	2,057	2,021	6,779	10,895	8,833	8,833	9,093	3,640	1,501	1,513	2,439	13,709	1,515	2,030	3,263	2,825	4,076	53,387
Crops and fallow:	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings
Crops and fallow:
Wheat	4,155	0	*	*	4,116	17,650	17,650	81,522	25,935	16,405	17,950	21,233	8,109	2,541	105	1,287	1,067	3,108	111,436
Triticale	*	0	*	0	*	*	*	241	41	*	65	*	278	*	0	*	*	189	687
Barley: Winter	1,035	0	29	0	1,007	19,953	19,953	21,642	5,446	4,263	3,809	8,124	5,380	637	*	*	941	3,145	48,010
Spring	24,774	*	4,320	*	20,369	95,217	95,217	94,210	46,739	15,864	13,899	17,706	28,163	5,147	1,533	6,118	5,792	9,573	242,364
Total	25,810	*	4,349	*	21,376	115,170	115,170	115,851	52,185	20,127	17,708	25,831	33,543	5,784	1,573	6,734	6,733	12,719	290,374
Oats (including mixed grain)	2,782	24	111	263	2,384	4,799	4,799	13,301	5,056	3,167	531	4,546	3,012	1,627	33	549	69	734	23,893
Rape for oilseed and linseed	1,930	*	0	*	*	12,712	12,712	20,938	7,245	2,405	3,901	7,387	528	*	0	0	*	286	36,107
Potatoes	1,505	23	32	41	1,409	6,284	6,284	22,753	14,767	3,549	2,257	2,181	835	99	19	37	338	342	31,377
Peas and beans for combining	247	0	*	0	*	518	518	5,452	1,254	1,208	825	2,165	715	425	0	*	*	161	6,932
Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding	936	15	79	6	836	2,159	2,159	1,601	705	272	113	511	815	100	52	70	283	309	5,511
Other crops for stockfeeding ⁽¹⁾	1,672	98	523	44	1,007	2,899	2,899	5,772	2,288	300	787	2,397	7,179	382	348	1,000	1,089	4,362	17,523
Vegetables for human consumption	407	5	10	21	370	2,027	2,027	13,763	8,687	2,367	1,109	1,600	258	128	6	69	29	26	16,456
Orchard and soft fruit	43	*	*	4	39	127	127	1,745	1,472	242	22	9	46	2	3	32	2	7	1,962
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	*	*	*	1	11	*	*	556	495	*	46	*	51	*	*	22	10	7	1,018
All other crops	718	7	196	13	502	1,699	1,699	2,909	1,246	419	440	804	1,570	362	170	528	167	343	6,895
Fallow land: 5 years or less	4,226	17	142	350	3,717	6,825	6,825	7,420	3,797	1,496	1,097	1,030	2,007	526	69	618	525	269	20,477
More than 5 years	564	8	135	80	341	376	376	360	112	54	76	118	183	35	18	58	62	10	1,483
Total crops and fallow	45,024	281	5,625	828	38,290	173,794	173,794	294,186	125,285	52,030	46,927	69,944	59,127	12,238	2,404	11,173	10,439	22,873	572,131
Grass and rough grazing:
Grass under 5 years old	63,245	1,054	18,877	2,120	41,195	*	*	*	*	14,827	14,098	42,695	120,144	13,473	8,832	*	*	49,928	423,178
Grass 5 years old and over	201,640	25,705	31,094	25,761	119,080	84,647	84,647	205,405	76,660	17,422	25,759	85,564	463,689	37,622	69,899	77,747	97,235	181,186	955,382
Sole right grazing	1,642,597	56,389	27,245	63,294	1,495,670	229,252	229,252	537,110	353,741	5,448	27,337	150,584	782,633	108,736	337,744	81,791	92,076	162,286	3,191,593
Common grazing	568,387	65,809	2,198	215,657	284,724	*	*	*	*	0	0	0	10,278	0	8,940	*	*	0	583,728
Total grass and rough grazing	2,520,894	149,238	85,039	307,660	1,978,958	623,573	623,573	1,145,673	593,038	89,728	114,120	348,787	1,435,871	172,070	427,819	198,946	220,764	416,273	5,726,012
Woodland	155,463	30	80	463	154,890	60,193	60,193	64,453	29,852	4,548	8,271	21,781	119,270	11,751	42,776	16,312	18,368	30,064	399,379
Other land	36,579	580	798	374	34,827	18,116	18,116	15,300	9,317	1,442	2,093	2,448	31,396	2,467	14,651	3,539	3,972	6,767	101,391
Total agricultural area	2,712,936	149,848	85,917	308,496	2,168,675	701,882	701,882	1,225,425	632,208	95,718	124,485	373,016	1,586,538	186,287	485,246	218,797	243,104	453,104	6,226,782

(1) See Table C2, note 3.
* data suppressed to prevent disclosure of individual holdings.

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