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SCOTTISH AGRICULTURE - OUTPUT, INPUT AND INCOME STATISTICS
March 2005

ISBN 0 7559 3937 9

A Scottish Executive National Statistics Publication

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CONTENTS

Summary
Conventions
1 Output, Input and Income at Current Prices
2 Quantities of Main Items of Agricultural Output
3 Average Prices of the Main Agricultural Products
4 Output and Input Volume Indices
5 Agricultural Grants and Subsidies (Included in Commodity Output Table 1)
5a Agricultural Grants and Subsidies (Non Agricultural / Capital)
6 Major Economic Indicators of Scottish Agriculture
6a Productivity
Selection of Key Graphs

SUMMARY OF SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL INCOME ESTIMATES 2004

1. The aggregate results for 2004 are provisional, and are based on the latest information available. While the information on outputs tends to be complete, the information on inputs normally becomes available later. The 2004 estimates are, therefore, subject to revision in the next Annual Review using later information.

2. As a result of the methodological changes enforced in 1998, the agricultural account now includes 'inseparable non-agricultural' activities. Some transactions within the agricultural industry are also included as both outputs and inputs. Subsidy payments are incorporated into output (and incomes) estimates on an accruals or "as due" basis.

3. Total Income From Farming (TIFF) measures business profits plus income to workers with an entrepreneurial interest (farmers, partners, directors and their spouses, and most other family members who work on the farm). It is the preferred income measure, conforming to internationally agreed accounting principles required by both UK national accounts and Eurostat.

4. The main results of the account show a forecast increase in TIFF of around 2.5% (£12.4 million) from last year. In real terms this represents a fall of around 0.4 percent. The details underpinning the rise in TIFF are summarised below:

• The value of gross output is forecast to have risen by 4 percent since 2003. The other crops sector (those crops not classed as cereals) has improved with potatoes showing a 36 per cent increase due largely to strong prices, particularly in the first half of the year.
• Finished and store livestock continue to progress showing 3 and 5 per cent increases respectively. Milk and milk products output is forecast to have risen by 6 percent, although much of this rise reflects the Dairy Premium Payment made in 2004.
• These increases are countered by a decrease in the value of cereals of 2 per cent due mainly to low prices and a fall in yield for the barley crop. Capital formation of livestock is also forecasting an 8 percent decrease in value reflecting lower prices for breeding livestock.
• The value of inputs has seen an increase of 6 per cent in 2004. There are forecast increases in almost all categories the most significant being seeds, fertilisers and lime, interest and miscellaneous expenses.
• Within miscellaneous expenses, fuel and oil has increased by 14 percent from 2003. The amount of interest paid by farmers has also increased reflecting the changes in interest rates that took place in 2004.

Conventions

All figures are given on a calendar year basis.

All market support receipts and payments associated with a particular commodity are included in the output valuation. For example, Finished Sheep output includes the Sheep Annual Premium while Cereal outputs include payments made under the Arable Area Payments Scheme.

Subsidies such as the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme, that are not associated with any particular cash crop are included under Total Other Subsidies (item 20, table 1). Equally payments made for land set-aside would not be included in the output valuation, but are listed separately as 'other subsidies'.

The finished cattle figure takes into account the number of cattle going to the Over Thirty Months Scheme (OTMS) and also those that entered the Calf Processing Aid Scheme, which ended in July 1999.

Sales of store stock (and of day-old chicks, turkey, poultry and hatching eggs) are included in output only if they are exported or moved out of Scotland to other parts of the UK. However, all sales of farm crops are included in the account.

The output and input figures presented in this booklet include very small holdings and also agricultural contractors. Landlords' expenses are included within farm maintenance, miscellaneous expenditure and on the depreciation of buildings and works. The net rent shown is the rent paid on tenanted land less these landlord expenses plus the benefit value of dwellings on that land.

The interest bill includes payments on advances for land.

The base year used in Tables 3, 4, and 6A has been revised from 1995 to 2000.

March 2005

Further information can be derived from any of the following publications on The Scottish Executive internet site: www.scotland.gov.uk

Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture (ERSA)
Farm Incomes in Scotland
ERSA can also be purchased in paper format from:

Scottish Executive Publication Sales
Blackwell's Bookshop
53 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1YS

Correspondence and enquires

Enquiries on the Scottish Agricultural Output, Input and Income Statistics 1995-2004 should be addressed to:

Analytical Services Division-2
Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
Mail Point 1-A
Pentland House
47 Robbs Loan
EDINBURGH EH14 1TY

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