Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, 2016

Presents an overall picture of Scottish agriculture using data from the various agricultural surveys that RESAS manage.


B12 Enterprise performance (1) summary table: 2013-14 and 2014-15

Enterprise Enterprise Gross Margin Overall Enterprise Gross Margin Output:Input Ratio
2013-14 (2) 2014-15 2014-15 2014-15
Average Lower 25% Average Upper 25% Lower 25% Average Upper 25% Lower 25% Average Upper 25%
Crop EGM (£ hectare) Crop EGM (£ per hectare) Crop Overall EGM (£) Crop
Winter wheat 828 327 632 966 8,535 25,016 40,063 1.6 2.2 3.1
Winter barley 449 304 552 860 6,562 14,529 29,719 2 2.2 2.9
Spring barley 582 233 492 755 7,786 24,844 54,057 1.6 2.4 3.1
Mixed barley 616 300 507 695 24,416 41,390 54,502 1.7 2.2 2.7
Winter oil seed rape 481 294 574 914 9,074 15,727 24,264 1.5 2.1 3.0
Winter oats 577 c 561 c c 15,496 c c 3.0 c
Spring oats 502 160 418 703 6,270 8,846 13,565 1.5 2.4 3.7
All potatoes 4,359 c 3,574 c c 76,630 c c 3.1 c
  Cattle EGM (£ head) Cattle EGM (£ per head) Cattle Overall EGM (£) Cattle
Dairy cows 1,123 719 1,118 1,588 138,452 197,665 238,474 1.8 2.1 2.5
Dairy followers 330 -112 362 822 -9,454 28,822 66,911 0.9 1.5 2.1
Dairy mixed & dairy beef (combined) 401 60 296 495 7,719 41,301 64,634 1.2 1.7 2.1
Beef: hill herds 171 c 250 c c 12,801 c c 1.6 c
Beef: upland suckler selling weaning 349 c c c c c c c c c
Beef: upland suckler selling yearling stores 288 118 375 639 8,520 33,499 61,062 1.2 1.8 2.5
Beef: lowland suckler/herds 292 -140 258 580 -6,027 17,451 39,159 0.8 1.5 2.1
Beef: forward stores 137 c 44 c c 3,215 c c 1.2 c
Beef: mixed 205 0 147 298 -1 13,895 26,679 1.0 1.5 2.1
Beef: finishing 204 -50 173 406 -4,546 18,309 34,891 0.9 1.5 2.2
  Sheep EGM (£ head) Sheep EGM (£ per head) Sheep Overall EGM (£) Sheep
Sheep: extensive/hardhill 6 -5 20 42 -3,679 16,042 34,048 0.9 1.6 2.5
Sheep: crossbred ewe production 36 c 49 c c 27,962 c c 1.7 c
Sheep: finished/store lamb production 28 11 43 73 5,100 22,631 36,858 1.2 1.9 2.4
Sheep: lowland (non LFA) 19 11 51 91 1,665 13,742 20,500 1.1 1.8 2.5
Sheep: store lamb finishing (short keep) c c c c c c c c c c
Sheep: store lamb finishing (long keep) 16 0 17 29 -10 7,407 13,622 1.0 2.4 4.4

(1) Performance categories are based on distributions of gross margin results.

(2) At 2014-15 prices.

c data suppressed to prevent disclosure of individual returns.

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