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Scottish Survey of Farm Structure and Methods, 2016

Scottish statistics from the EU Farm Structure Survey 2016.

	number	percentage	number	percentage
	2013		2016
Carried out soil pH testing on grassland ¹	:	:	9,359	29.7
Carried out soil pH testing on other land ²	:	:	6,673	64.3
Carried out nutrient management plan on grassland ¹	5,857	18.4	5,334	16.9
Carried out nutrient management plan on other land ²	4,119	36.1	4,322	41.6
Holdings with temporary grass that use low n variety ⁽³⁾	11,423	85.3	1,629	16.4
Area sown with low n variety ⁽⁴⁾	253,200	59.7	44,260	21.3

: Information not available

¹ grassland holdings in 2013 - 31,918; grassland holdings in 2016 - 31,500

² holdings with other land in 2013 - 11,479; holdings with other land in 2016 - 10,830

³ temporary grass area in 2013 - 13,399; temporary grass area in 2016 -9,877

⁴ temporary grass area in 2013 - 424,433; temporary grass area in 2016 - 207,385

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