Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2006 Edition

Table B1 Average cropping and stocking, output, inputs, and net farm income by type of farm, 2003-04 and 2004-05

Type of farm	LFA: Specialist sheep		LFA: Specialist beef		LFA: Cattle and sheep		Lowground Cattle and sheep		Cereals		General cropping		Dairy		Mixed
Number of farms in sample	47	48	121	118	65	62	9	9	49	49	48	48	66	64	64	62
Number of farms in sample	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05	2003- 04	2004- 05
Average size of business ( SLR)	2.9	2.6	2.3	2.4	3.7	3.7	1.9	2.0	1.7	1.7	2.4	2.8	3.7	3.8	2.7	2.6
Average size of farm (hectares)	578	589	185	205	614	614	88	88	162	159	147	147	124	122	203	196
Number of Ewes	706	580	191	204	643	634	145	133	18	20	50	52	62	52	163	140
Number of suckler cows	6	6	89	92	55	59	51	58	5	4	16	18	4	4	7	6
Number of other cattle	15	16	138	137	81	84	144	162	38	33	47	49	279	286	136	136
Average output £ per farm(1)
Crops: Cereals	151	95	4,211	3,759	3,486	3,275	5,230	3,317	86,155	75,201	58,021	51,488	5,736	5,530	39,979	33,837
Potatoes	0	0	31	29	118	121	0	0	2,308	2,061	34,996	31,864	91	248	505	788
Other crops	404	428	1,213	1,332	1,234	1,682	1,767	2,623	20,656	18,226	27,489	16,529	3,260	3,983	9,439	6,375
Total crop output	555	523	5,454	5,120	4,839	5,078	6,998	5,940	109,119	95,487	120,506	99,881	9,087	9,761	49,923	40,999
Livestock: Cattle	5,571	6,347	66,534	69,693	41,959	40,473	57,866	61,837	13,082	12,491	22,980	21,937	41,175	37,472	61,475	61,696
(of which subsidies)	(2,165)	(2,246)	(25,527)	(28,893)	(16,087)	(18,068)	(23,284)	(25,681)	(6,418)	(5,883)	(8,877)	(9,435)	(7,230)	(6,316)	(22,608)	(23,438)
Sheep	35,183	35,568	17,129	16,831	42,603	41,060	14,479	13,003	2,303	1,746	4,669	5,313	5,701	5,305	15,768	15,416
(of which subsidies)	(12,413)	(13,387)	(4,352)	(4,915)	(14,004)	(15,168)	(3,131)	(2,966)	(329)	(369)	(780)	(873)	(1,305)	(1,182)	(3,333)	(3,622)
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	35	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Poultry	-3	-5	0	0	93	143	0	0	0.0	0.0	98	124	159	129	0	0
Milk	0	0	0	0	51	67	0	0	999.4	305.8	0	0	132,931	139,689	8,960	7,693
Other livestock	10	5	38	-6	83	94	16	4	0.0	0.0	4	21	17	11	169	-11
Total livestock output(2)	40,761	41,915	83,702	86,518	84,788	81,872	72,361	74,843	16,384.1	14,542.3	27,751	27,395	179,984	182,606	86,372	84,793
Miscellaneous	4,061	3,730	4,238	4,082	4,337	5,126	1,810	2,453	8,867	11,513	16,170	17,360	4,607	5,659	6,582	7,438
Other grants and Subsidies: ⁽³⁾	9,592	9,318	10,759	10,995	15,019	14,401	3,676	4,308	904	1,110	2,411	2,093	2,020	7,216	6,104	6,846
(of which LFASS)	(6,527)	(6,283)	(8,199)	(8,408)	(10,131)	(10,417)	(3,400)	(3,321)	(141)	(120)	(430)	(407)	(1,343)	(1,079)	(3,884)	(3,977)
Total average output	54,968	55,484	104,152	106,715	108,983	106,477	84,845	87,545	135,274	122,651	166,838	146,728	195,698	205,244	148,982	140,076
Average inputs - £ per farm
Feed	7,107	7,423	15,071	15,389	16,952	17,661	16,549	17,188	3,997	3,927	6,766	6,949	48,914	49,886	19,994	18,484
(of which home-produced)	(93)	(51)	(1,730)	(1,962)	(1,549)	(1,544)	(2,572)	(1,976)	(1,226)	(1,570)	(1,881)	(2,392)	-(2884)	-(2,802)	-(6,144)	-(6,589)
Seed	102	263	845	890	919	980	857	723	5,326	5,350	7,043	7,363	1,361	1,292	3,427	3,570
(of which home-grown)	(0)	(0)	(39)	(42)	(39)	(61)	(118)	(94)	(898)	(958)	(2,554)	(2,976)	(19)	(13)	(421)	(547)
Labour	6,918	6,985	9,016	9,462	13,409	13,195	3,531	4,313	12,771	12,926	20,134	19,487	26,188	27,516	17,599	17,916
Fertilisers	1,515	1,615	6,175	6,331	4,997	5,673	5,241	5,031	11,419	13,416	10,330	10,470	9,740	10,629	10,232	9,792
Machinery (excl depreciation)	5,707	6,005	10,773	11,376	10,360	11,461	8,520	10,568	18,607	19,549	24,946	26,877	19,245	20,883	17,473	17,534
Miscellaneous	4,760	4,940	7,183	7,755	7,282	7,347	4,715	4,622	9,982	10,512	10,699	10,154	10,543	10,929	9,717	9,732
Land and building costs	8,265	8,555	15,327	15,538	14,948	14,943	10,690	10,761	24,005	23,953	26,609	26,735	26,120	27,410	20,014	19,459
Machinery depreciation ⁽⁴⁾	4,950	5,309	9,545	10,339	8,728	9,537	6,122	8,175	18,263	17,692	16,000	18,248	13,125	13,929	12,944	13,290
Other livestock expenses	5,598	5,812	7,977	8,579	8,796	9,059	7,484	8,582	1,935	1,720	2,901	3,292	15,427	15,659	9,143	9,644
Other crop expenses	267	217	1,397	1,592	1,005	1,036	1,005	644	11,950	12,175	16,077	13,069	2,299	2,544	6,036	6,088
Total average inputs	45,189	47,123	83,311	87,250	87,397	90,893	64,713	70,606	118,255	121,219	141,504	142,643	172,962	180,676	126,580	125,508
Average net farm income(2)	9,780	8,361	20,842	19,466	21,586	15,585	20,132	16,939	17,019	1,433	25,334	4,085	22,736	24,567	22,402	14,568
Breeding livestock appreciation	1,959	175	1,822	-1,858	2,623	-1,005	1,045	-715	125	-51	129.1	-176.9	2,516.9	-3,800.2	1,276.1	28.2
Total valuation change (incl. BLSA)	3,799	358	4,275	-1,524	9,729	-1,648	7,860	8,378	5,807	-820	7,388.5	551.3	8,802.3	-25.7	8,637	1,093.1

(1) Including the value of home-grown non-fodder crops used on the farm for feed or seed, and of milk from the dairy cows fed to stock.

(2) Excluding breeding livestock appreciation ( BLSA).

(3) Excluding cattle and sheep subsidies, which are in the appropriate output.

(4) On a replacement cost basis.

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