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Scottish Survey of Farm Structure and Methods, 2016

Scottish statistics from the EU Farm Structure Survey 2016.

	hectares	percentage of tillage	number of holdings	hectares per holding	hectares	percentage of tillage	number of holdings	hectares per holding
	2013				2016
Inversion tillage	504,837	81.1	10,295	49.0	668,817	90.1	12,079	55.4
Conservation tillage	68,434	11.0	6,263	10.9	47,783	6.4	1,082	44.2
Zero tillage	48,853	7.9	6,071	8.0	25,858	3.5	827	31.3
Total	622,124		10,491		742,458		19,356

Note: Sum of sub-categories do not equal total holdings figure as holdings may employ more than one method of tillage.

Excludes glasshouse crops and permanent crops and permanent grass.

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