Scottish Survey of Farm Structure and Methods, 2016

Scottish statistics from the EU Farm Structure Survey 2016.


Table 15: Method of manure and slurry application, by tonnage

2016
holdings tonnes
Broadcast
Ploughed in within four hours 920 385,842
Ploughed in after four hours 5,146 2,117,346
Not ploughed in or injected 4,957 9,322,483
Bandspread
Trailing hose 550 4178295
Trailing shoe 294 602,161
Injection
Shallow/open slot 63 576,821
Deep/closed slot 11 31,043
Total applied 9,246 17,213,991

Note: no equivalent data available for 2013 Base: 32,260 holdings

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