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Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, 2016

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

Grass:
	LFA ⁽¹⁾	Non-LFA	Total
Number of holdings	36,184	16,119	52,303
Crops, fallow and set-aside:	hectares	hectares	hectares
Wheat	9,344	100,219	109,562
Triticale	287	338	626
Barley: Winter	7,428	44,380	51,808
Spring	66,353	189,525	255,878
Total	73,781	233,904	307,686
Oats (including mixed grain)	6,609	19,080	25,690
Rape for oilseed (including linseed)	1,921	34,027	35,948
Potatoes	1,998	23,766	25,764
Peas for combining	195	1,275	1,470
Beans for combining	363	3,683	4,045
Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding	2,302	2,144	4,446
Other crops for stockfeeding ⁽²⁾	9,600	3,798	13,397
Vegetables for human consumption	1,000	15,671	16,672
Orchard and soft fruit	96	1,823	1,919
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	148	798	946
All other crops	3,590	7,826	11,416
Fallow land: 5 years or less	7,933	22,129	30,061
more than 5 years	1,751	1,297	3,049
Total crops and fallow	120,919	471,779	592,698
Under 5 years	131,517	81,447	212,964
5 years and over	938,076	189,888	1,127,964
Total grass	1,069,592	271,335	1,340,928
Total crops, fallow and grass	1,190,512	743,114	1,933,625
Rough grazing:
Sole right grazing	2,916,225	32,875	2,949,100
Common grazing	584,247	0	584,247
Total rough grazing	3,500,472	32,875	3,533,347
Total crops, fallow, grass and rough grazing (UAA) ⁽³⁾	4,690,984	775,988	5,466,972
Woodland	451,990	72,036	524,026
Other land	152,597	17,071	169,669
Total agricultural area	5,295,571	865,095	6,160,667

(1) A holding is classified as LFA if 50% or more of its land is assessed as being disadvantaged or severely disadvantaged for subsidy purposes.

(2) Includes lupins and maize.

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

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