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Scottish Survey of Farm Structure and Methods, 2016
Scottish statistics from the EU Farm Structure Survey 2016.
Table 9: Number of holdings using various methods for selecting rams/bulls/semen
2013 | 2016 | |||||||||||
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sheep | beef cattle | dairy cattle | sheep | beef cattle | dairy cattle | |||||||
number | % | number | % | number | % | number | % | number | % | number | % | |
No information | 9,546 | 80.5 | 6,923 | 71.0 | 3,712 | 86.8 | 9,496 | 76.6 | 5,220 | 58.1 | 184 | 18.0 |
breeds or traits | 2,236 | 18.9 | 2,336 | 24.0 | 326 | 7.6 | 2,944 | 23.7 | 2,979 | 33.1 | 484 | 47.3 |
EBV | 676 | 5.7 | 1,431 | 14.7 | 466 | 10.9 | 989 | 8.0 | 2,097 | 23.3 | 674 | 65.8 |
Total breeding | 11,859 | 9,746 | 4,277 | 12,403 | 8,991 | 1,024 |
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