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Publication - Statistics

Results from the June 2012 Scottish Agricultural Census

Published
25 September 2012
ISBN
9781782561156

Final results from the annual agricultural census. Land, livestock and labour items.

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Table 1b. Agricultural area in hectares, 2002 to 2012

From 2009, data on land use has been obtained from the Single Application Form (SAF) for holdings claiming Single Farm Payments.
This has been combined with land use data from all other holdings, collected through June Census forms, to generate overall results.
This change in the underlying data source constitutes a step change in the data series, which is more evident for certain land use categories, such as rough grazing and grass land.

Use of SAF Data
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (1) 2010 2011 2012 change between
2011 & 2012
Vegetables for human consumption 10,110 10,589 10,678 10,568 11,314 11,778 12,267 16,012 16,479 15,246 15,430 1.2%
Orchard fruit 47 43 44 45 39 45 47 37 49 67 69 3.0%
Soft fruit 1,742 1,649 1,695 1,676 1,706 1,787 1,866 2,025 1,913 1,666 808 -51.5%
Other crops 4,784 4,807 5,773 6,904 9,146 9,732 8,381 7,611 7,804 9,306 8,937 -4.0%
Fallow (2) 12,085 8,073 8,514 19,213 17,724 15,085 14,330 22,166 21,934 15,056 15,477 2.8%
Fallow - under 5 years - - - - - - - - 18,798 10,988 11,306 2.9%
Fallow - 5th year & over - - - - - - - - 3,136 4,068 4,171 2.5%
Set-aside (3)(4) 85,580 90,684 75,117 69,492 67,549 62,433 17,815 - - - - -
Total crops, fallow, and set-aside 649,694 640,594 638,805 613,611 600,352 600,667 602,386 586,609 571,895 582,968 588,873 1.0%
.
Grass .
Grass - under 5 years 321,609 319,146 322,044 324,440 321,476 316,026 300,838 415,531 422,623 411,179 428,538 4.2%
Grass - 5th year & over 929,821 933,506 902,402 910,293 922,100 919,123 917,738 945,298 954,646 946,372 896,649 -5.3%
Total grass 1,251,430 1,252,652 1,224,446 1,234,733 1,243,576 1,235,149 1,218,576 1,360,828 1,377,268 1,357,551 1,325,187 -2.4%
.
Total area of crops and grass 1,901,124 1,893,246 1,863,251 1,848,344 1,843,929 1,835,816 1,820,963 1,947,438 1,949,163 1,940,519 1,914,059 -1.4%
.
Rough grazing 3,359,707 3,313,492 3,329,487 3,342,315 3,441,133 3,407,194 3,434,016 3,217,955 3,192,860 3,119,241 3,080,483 -1.2%
Woodland 209,866 236,639 238,955 238,024 249,293 279,851 317,341 350,836 399,805 426,101 445,425 4.5%
Other land 64,855 74,237 80,677 80,597 80,395 74,524 74,585 68,689 101,563 139,298 164,147 17.8%
.
Total agricultural area 5,535,551 5,517,613 5,512,370 5,509,280 5,614,750 5,597,386 5,646,906 5,584,918 5,643,391 5,625,159 5,604,114 -0.4%

(1) From 2009, data on land use has been obtained from the Single Application Form (SAF) for holdings claiming Single Farm Payments.
(2) Information on land that has been fallow for more than five years and less than 5 years was collected for the first time in 2010
(3) Set-aside entitlements under the Single Farm Payment Scheme ceased in 2009.
(4) Note that some crop areas on land attracting set-aside entitlements under the Single Farm Payment Scheme in 2008 may not have been reported on the June Agricultural Census. Conversely, the set-aside estimate could include some land used for non-industrial arable, forage and protein crops.

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