On this page:

Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2002 Edition

« Previous | Contents | Next »

Listen

Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2002 Edition

Table B6 Average opening and closing balance sheets by tenure and type of farm, 2000-01: all tenures

Type of farm

LFA: Specialist sheep

LFA: Specialist beef

LFA: Cattle and sheep

Cereals

General cropping

Dairy

Mixed

Number of farms in sample

46

96

90

22

49

63

60

Assets

Valuation

Valuation

Valuation

Valuation

Valuation

Valuation

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

Opening

Closing

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

/farm

Land and buildings etc (1)

117,229

125,213

152,265

158,738

155,338

157,800

282,809

285,494

539,262

542,102

272,250

285,946

380,733

383,421

Other fixed assets (2)

37,773

33,912

71,825

66,878

65,989

60,909

60,769

54,959

87,680

87,826

85,622

80,197

72,986

69,339

Current assets (3)

48,783

40,974

75,754

82,785

80,236

83,035

51,954

57,677

116,301

109,668

246,672

187,910

101,908

104,09

Total assets

203,785

200,099

299,844

308,400

301,563

301,743

395,532

398,129

743,243

739,596

604,543

554,053

555,627

556,857

Liabilities

Bank loans

1,994

1,698

15,505

15,222

10,469

10,169

6,263

5,374

3,356

2,760

22,360

21,786

16,015

15,081

Other long and medium term loans (4)

4,048

4,274

5,092

4,942

11,305

10,676

13,581

19,139

3,426

3,736

8,849

12,228

9,288

8,747

Bank overdraft

12,158

8,909

19,697

20,794

30,817

33,550

40,705

45,786

27,578

33,107

38,178

37,608

47,967

48,798

Other short term loans (5)

4,187

6,166

9,112

7,910

8,844

9,184

17,037

13,435

20,005

14,993

15,838

20,919

11,089

11,764

Total external liabilities

22,387

21,047

49,407

48,868

61,434

63,579

77,587

83,734

54,365

54,596

85,226

92,541

84,358

84,390

(of which total bank borrowing)

(14,152)

(10,607)

(35,203)

(36,016)

(41,286)

(43,720)

(46,969)

(51,160)

(30,934)

(35,867)

(60,538)

(59,394)

(63,981)

(63,879)

Net worth

181,397

179,052

250,437

259,532

240,129

238,163

317,945

314,395

688,878

684,999

519,317

461,512

471,269

472,467

Total external liabilities as a percentage of total assets

11

11

16

16

20

21

20

21

7

7

14

17

15

15

(1) Land and buildings, improvements and fixed equipment.
(2) Machinery, equipment and vehicles, and breeding livestock.
(3) Physical working assets such as trading livestock, harvested and growing crops, purchased stores and liquid assets such as sundry debtors.
(4) Loans by the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation, insurance companies and building societies and also family loans.
(5) Outstanding capital debt for machinery and equipment being acquired under hire purchase or finance leasing arrangements, and also sundry creditors and receipts in advance.

]

« Previous | Contents | Next »

Page updated: Wednesday, September 14, 2005