Scottish Agricultural Census Summary Sheets by Geographical Area: June 2003

SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL CENSUS SUMMARY SHEETS BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA: JUNE 2003

Dairy cows and heifers in calf
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	Cows and heifers in milk		Cows in calf but not in milk		Total dairy cows		Heifers in calf for the first time
	Cows and heifers in milk		Cows in calf but not in milk		Total dairy cows		2 years old and over		Under 2 years old		Total
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	12	442	10	103	13	545	16	72	6	30	18	102
Orkney	37	2,337	29	457	42	2,794	30	262	12	121	34	383
Eileanan an Iar	24	145	5	22	27	167	71	96	0	0	71	96
Highland	77	2,721	52	522	99	3,243	137	518	21	329	149	847
NE Scotland	152	13,505	119	2,200	169	15,705	145	2,115	82	1,803	177	3,918
Tayside	48	4,194	43	619	56	4,813	46	604	25	624	54	1,228
Fife	54	4,810	49	784	58	5,594	59	804	30	398	64	1,202
Lothian	49	3,183	38	608	52	3,791	44	555	14	253	46	808
Scottish Borders	36	3,823	24	384	41	4,207	19	313	16	560	23	873
East Central	62	4,703	54	773	67	5,476	52	872	30	551	61	1,423
Argyll & Bute	105	7,994	97	1,281	113	9,275	100	1,452	40	351	105	1,803
Clyde Valley	320	25,374	295	4,248	336	29,622	298	5,212	116	1,864	316	7,076
Ayrshire	448	41,368	403	6,584	466	47,952	418	7,366	177	2,902	437	10,268
Dumfries & Galloway	540	59,280	440	6,813	557	66,093	416	7,492	269	5,713	500	13,205
Scotland	1,964	173,879	1,658	25,398	2,096	199,277	1,851	27,733	838	15,499	2,055	43,232

Beef cows and heifers in calf
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	Cows and heifers in milk		Cows in calf but not in milk		Total beef cows		Heifers in calf for the first time
	Cows and heifers in milk		Cows in calf but not in milk		Total beef cows		2 years old and over		Under 2 years old		Total
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	141	1,720	99	317	159	2,037	43	112	45	162	76	274
Orkney	552	24,579	446	4,021	570	28,600	332	1,794	145	750	395	2,544
Eileanan an Iar	340	2,438	170	424	369	2,862	168	342	24	57	185	399
Highland	1,632	42,750	1,176	12,607	1,755	55,357	808	3,544	268	1,621	963	5,165
NE Scotland	1,610	76,550	1,228	19,361	1,716	95,911	741	5,568	458	3,933	1,012	9,501
Tayside	655	30,945	481	7,335	698	38,280	350	2,531	158	1,268	432	3,799
Fife	220	12,316	168	1,962	237	14,278	110	863	67	455	147	1,318
Lothian	201	10,639	153	2,891	208	13,530	92	870	39	419	113	1,289
Scottish Borders	586	37,852	490	11,243	620	49,095	306	2,920	108	1,095	365	4,015
East Central	317	10,978	233	2,668	331	13,646	201	1,437	60	523	223	1,960
Argyll & Bute	570	18,722	410	4,268	596	22,990	320	2,047	73	381	353	2,428
Clyde Valley	645	24,890	509	8,512	697	33,402	401	2,793	140	1,054	469	3,847
Ayrshire	589	22,874	461	7,910	635	30,784	345	2,433	106	637	403	3,070
Dumfries & Galloway	1,163	71,058	912	17,764	1,233	88,822	726	7,147	196	1,704	806	8,851
Scotland	9,221	388,311	6,936	101,283	9,824	489,594	4,943	34,401	1,887	14,059	5,942	48,460

Bulls for service
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	2 years old and over		1 year old and under 2		Total bulls for service
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	*	*	*	*	92	124
Orkney	493	988	81	138	511	1,126
Eileanan an Iar	*	*	*	*	59	77
Highland	896	1,885	170	377	958	2,262
NE Scotland	1,338	3,067	287	548	1,398	3,615
Tayside	555	1,241	126	320	577	1,561
Fife	214	470	62	175	229	645
Lothian	173	418	43	76	180	494
Scottish Borders	526	1,499	136	368	547	1,867
East Central	271	476	70	101	290	577
Argyll & Bute	430	793	75	146	448	939
Clyde Valley	674	1,245	202	451	718	1,696
Ayrshire	707	1,368	200	393	755	1,761
Dumfries & Galloway	1,275	3,302	382	753	1,342	4,055
Scotland	7,693	16,923	1,853	3,876	8,104	20,799

Other cattle 2 years old and over
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	Male		Females for breeding				Females not for breeding
	Male		Dairy		Beef		Females not for breeding
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	19	45	*	*	28	61	9	21
Orkney	243	1,885	6	33	122	581	210	1,242
Eileanan an Iar	37	103	*	*	80	184	32	52
Highland	276	1,451	20	231	416	1,957	200	605
NE Scotland	712	12,348	20	146	333	4,744	444	5,199
Tayside	217	3,592	12	116	162	1,327	171	1,791
Fife	101	1,610	18	372	55	591	80	1,054
Lothian	82	1,064	16	263	62	624	57	805
Scottish Borders	158	1,895	6	92	189	2,219	141	1,380
East Central	139	1,945	16	186	90	929	79	804
Argyll & Bute	130	988	35	477	214	1,535	90	411
Clyde Valley	297	3,460	121	1,424	225	1,770	188	1,675
Ayrshire	347	4,408	143	1,822	192	1,681	214	2,256
Dumfries & Galloway	523	9,446	98	1,307	385	3,992	417	5,475
Scotland	3,281	44,240	518	6,479	2,553	22,195	2,332	22,770

Other cattle 1 year old and under 2
June Census 2002
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	Male		Females for breeding				Females not for breeding
	Male		Dairy		Beef		Females not for breeding
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	79	343	9	73	69	247	39	177
Orkney	545	12,726	33	399	303	2,622	499	9,734
Eileanan an Iar	117	234	9	11	146	400	89	159
Highland	834	11,904	47	681	776	5,354	617	8,793
NE Scotland	1,651	65,379	119	2,706	752	10,759	1,308	42,823
Tayside	569	15,099	36	901	316	4,184	439	10,731
Fife	237	8,671	48	1,229	120	1,502	197	5,272
Lothian	212	6,310	39	878	107	1,534	153	4,888
Scottish Borders	498	14,724	17	748	294	5,660	393	12,408
East Central	290	8,172	51	1,375	191	1,990	198	3,648
Argyll & Bute	317	4,195	105	2,129	366	3,033	183	1,859
Clyde Valley	621	15,007	284	7,407	415	4,696	451	9,213
Ayrshire	697	18,176	413	11,255	382	4,502	520	11,983
Dumfries & Galloway	1,157	42,077	432	11,168	707	10,816	948	27,713
Scotland	7,824	223,017	1,642	40,960	4,944	57,299	6,034	149,401

Cattle totals
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	Dairy cattle ⁽¹⁾		Beef cattle ⁽²⁾		Other cattle 6 months old and under 1 year				Other cattle under 6 months old				Total cattle ⁽³⁾
	Dairy cattle ⁽¹⁾		Beef cattle ⁽²⁾		Male		Female		Male		Female		Total cattle ⁽³⁾
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	24	722	187	3,205	43	137	45	164	127	817	132	841	199	6,010
Orkney	61	3,609	655	59,934	269	2,246	266	2,220	554	11,777	559	11,553	666	92,465
Eileanan an Iar	93	282	473	4,393	88	230	101	210	266	939	277	969	494	7,100
Highland	239	5,002	2,071	90,586	793	7,641	797	7,523	1,449	16,747	1,446	16,887	2,114	146,648
NE Scotland	270	22,475	2,695	246,664	1,270	22,443	1,217	17,730	1,593	32,855	1,612	32,432	2,801	378,214
Tayside	81	7,058	986	78,803	450	6,797	464	6,665	619	12,088	624	12,000	1,013	124,972
Fife	78	8,397	364	34,296	187	2,868	184	3,223	238	5,543	242	5,634	384	60,606
Lothian	63	5,740	318	30,044	170	3,647	168	3,438	219	4,784	208	4,210	332	52,357
Scottish Borders	52	5,920	766	91,396	401	7,665	400	7,845	589	15,584	584	15,678	784	145,955
East Central	89	8,460	459	33,094	227	3,153	230	3,009	320	4,930	325	5,099	475	58,322
Argyll & Bute	146	13,684	720	37,439	351	4,208	360	4,752	569	7,926	589	8,455	750	77,403
Clyde Valley	392	45,529	979	73,070	620	9,387	656	10,874	785	13,598	827	14,637	1,067	168,791
Ayrshire	531	71,297	1,020	76,860	696	11,720	758	15,149	835	15,102	874	17,359	1,114	209,248
Dumfries & Galloway	635	91,773	1,705	197,192	1,146	23,697	1,214	27,654	1,428	37,151	1,471	38,596	1,847	420,118
Scotland	2,754	289,948	13,398	1,056,976	6,711	105,839	6,860	110,456	9,591	179,841	9,770	184,350	14,040	1,948,209

(1) Dairy cattle consists of dairy cows, dairy heifers in calf for the first time and other female dairy cattle for breeding, aged 1 year old and over.
(2) Beef cattle consists of beef cows, beef heifers in calf for the first time, other male cattle aged 1 year old and over, other female beef cattle aged 1 year old and over, and other female cattle not for breeding aged 1 year and over.
(3) Total cattle includes bulls for service.

Calves and store cattle sold and bought between 1/6/02 and 1/6/03
June Census 2003
Summary for Local Authority sub-groups and Scotland

	2 years old and over				1 year old and under 2 years				6 months old and under 1 year				Under 6 months old
	Sold		Bought		Sold		Bought		Sold		Bought		Sold		Bought
	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number	Holdings	Number
Shetland	22	71	*	*	62	552	13	198	64	700	23	87	40	385	25	59
Orkney	101	968	11	297	309	9,008	80	2,799	50	649	46	337	45	859	121	564
Eileanan an Iar	35	83	*	*	40	200	7	47	124	822	20	106	19	122	14	30
Highland	182	1,466	50	291	637	18,243	160	3,632	671	12,186	210	4,126	161	1,787	248	1,515
NE Scotland	299	8,495	105	3,997	905	43,204	661	54,545	464	15,966	564	23,690	191	5,482	639	10,937
Tayside	102	1,766	46	1,538	287	12,417	166	12,184	178	5,523	107	3,435	60	1,713	156	2,074
Fife	27	736	10	636	79	2,700	62	3,487	40	1,170	56	2,002	32	732	63	1,122
Lothian	32	1,673	9	186	88	4,226	54	4,048	54	1,532	43	2,578	28	587	65	1,448
Scottish Borders	57	1,186	27	456	288	13,218	101	8,318	159	6,060	98	3,566	61	1,045	169	2,200
East Central	53	1,803	17	78	143	4,425	76	4,435	111	3,634	62	2,082	60	909	91	848
Argyll & Bute	91	742	33	211	227	5,368	34	615	280	8,321	64	805	120	2,187	124	950
Clyde Valley	145	2,176	44	756	346	12,730	125	5,585	249	7,232	135	3,049	223	5,738	258	3,633
Ayrshire	146	2,622	33	539	351	12,089	119	4,530	262	8,363	154	4,677	236	6,652	258	3,875
Dumfries & Galloway	216	6,323	72	2,186	686	32,310	257	19,410	392	16,847	246	11,074	342	9,422	498	9,194
Scotland	1,508	30,110	471	11,204	4,448	170,690	1,915	123,833	3,098	89,005	1,828	61,614	1,618	37,620	2,729	38,449

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