Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, 2016

Presents 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 2005-2015 (1)(2)

  detailed questions asked in alternate years summary questions asked
Machinery type 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Tracked tractors (Caterpillars) 315 379 465 759 654 803 604 579 706 561 729
Wheeled tractors 42,614 42,827 41,985 42,173 41,997 42,190 40,224 40,683 40,008 39,672 40,993
Transport 20,902 21,509 22,221 21,758 23,246 22,967 24,278 23,802 24,196 27,687 19,909
Cultivation 52,205 50,663 49,105 47,808 47,439 46,714 45,824 45,006 43,694 41,052 38,411
Planting and Fertiliser Distribution 32,939 32,154 30,842 29,941 29,796 29,468 28,915 28,254 27,348 25,471 23,594
Field crop of fruit sprayers 4,659 4,568 4,398 4,228 4,261 4,293 4,362 4,431 4,136 3,841 4,653
Combine harvesters 4,703 4,517 4,438 4,358 4,256 4,153 4,182 4,210 4,047 3,884 3,813
Harvesting 48,267 46,899 45,859 44,669 43,932 43,575 42,912 41,398 39,931 33,770 27,609
Load handling and Transporting 60,515 59,590 58,610 58,154 57,917 57,713 57,612 56,472 54,970 47,673 40,376
Drying and storage 5,023 4,793 4,739 4,684 4,525 4,365 4,254 4,142 4,012 3,882 3,391
Mounted hedge cutters 1,192 1,013 833 838 843 877 910 994 1,077 1,129 1,181
Drainage and ditching equipment 3,699 3,697 3,627 3,556 3,675 3,794 3,759 3,723 3,652 3,580 4,372
Freed mills, feed mixers and combined mill/mixers 3,636 3,515 3,358 3,200 3,196 3,192 3,108 3,023 2,895 2,767 3,367
Milking parlours : : : : : : : : : : 987
Cattle weighing crushes 2,604 2,523 2,442 2,379 2,315 2,403 2,491 2,411 2,331 2,575 2,818
Stand-by generators 4,986 5,247 5,309 5,371 5,404 5,436 5,298 5,160 5,077 4,993 5,636

(1) Figures for tractors and transport are based on estimates for all main holdings only, the numbers of which change from year to year.

(2) From 2015, only summary machinery data was collected (as opposed to data for individual sub-categories). Comparisons with previous years should be made with caution. In some cases this also affects 2014 data.

More information can be found in the publication 'Results from the 2015 December Agricultural Survey' www.gov.scot/stats/bulletins/01205

(3) Milking parlours collected from 2015.

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