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Scottish Survey of Farm Structure and Methods, 2016

Scottish statistics from the EU Farm Structure Survey 2016.

	hectares	percentage of cultivable land	number of holdings	hectares per holding	hectares	percentage of cultivable land	number of holdings	hectares per holding
	2013				2016
Autumn/ winter crops	215,034	32.5	8,211	26.2	246,814	41.9	5,859	42.1
Cover/ intermediate crop	23,757	3.6	6,086	3.9	21,448	3.6	2,205	9.7
Plant residues or stubble	309,875	46.8	9,317	33.3	245,860	41.7	9,524	25.8
Bare soil	113,098	17.1	7,152	15.8	74,792	12.7	2,797	26.7
Total	661,764		10,491	63.1	588,914		13,362	44.1

Note 1: Sum of sub-categories do not equal total holdings figure as holdings may employ more than one method of soil cover.

Sum of percentages may not equal 100 due to rounding. Excludes glasshouse crops and permanent crops and permanent grass.

Note 2: no equivalent data available for 2013

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