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Table C1 Crops, grass and rough grazings on main and minor holdings for each United Kingdom country, June 2005
| Scotland | England | Wales | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom |
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Number of holdings (1) | 51,094 | 195,908 | 36,969 | 27,064 | 311,035 |
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Crops, fallow and set-aside: | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares |
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Wheat | 96,647 | 1,748,414 | 14,812 | 8,407 | 1,868,280 |
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Triticale | 1,151 | 11,191 | na | 254 | na |
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Barley: Winter | 52,181 | 321,312 | 7,570 | 4,012 | 385,075 |
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Spring | 246,741 | 274,215 | 14,196 | 21,728 | 556,880 |
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Total | 298,922 | 595,527 | 21,766 | 25,740 | 941,955 |
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Oats (including mixed grain) (2) | 20,723 | 74,231 | 4,937 | 2,101 | 101,992 |
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Rape for oilseed | 35,780 | 479,954 | 2,959 | 345 | 519,038 |
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Linseed and flax (3) | 418 | 45,315 | na | 0 | na |
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Potatoes | 28,252 | 102,406 | 2,190 | 4,541 | 137,389 |
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Peas for combining | 1,401 | 52,207 | nc | nc | na |
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Beans for combining | 3,447 | 180,662 | nc | nc | na |
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Lupins | 779 | nc | nc | nc | 779 |
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Maize | 738 | 118,676 | 9,099 | 2,424 | 130,937 |
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Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding | 7,971 | 15,014 | na | 229 | na |
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Other crops for stockfeeding | 15,922 | 19,579 | na | 734 | na |
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Vegetables for human consumption | 10,568 | 108,696 | 324 | 1,360 | 120,948 |
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Orchard and soft fruit | 1,721 | 29,228 | 526 | 1,476 | 32,951 |
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Bulbs, other flowers and nursery stock | 986 | 12,430 | 299 | 132 | 13,847 |
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All other crops | 5,947 | 201,778 | 8,076 | 3,920 | 219,721 |
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Fallow | 19,220 | 120,178 | 750 | nc | 140,148 |
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Set-aside | 70,140 | 482,169 | 4,657 | 2,351 | 559,317 |
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Total crops, fallow and set-aside | 620,734 | 4,397,655 | 70,395 | 54,014 | 5,142,798 |
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Grass under 5 years: |
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For mowing | 161,372 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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For grazing | 163,251 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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Total grass under 5 years | 324,623 | 618,227 | 115,056 | 135,570 | 1,193,476 |
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Grass 5 years and over: | | | | | |
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For mowing | 155,767 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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For grazing | 754,632 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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Total grass 5 years and over | 910,399 | 3,142,642 | 982,386 | 675,782 | 5,711,209 |
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Total crops, fallow, grass and set-aside | 1,855,756 | 8,158,524 | 1,167,837 | 865,366 | 12,047,483 |
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Rough grazing: |
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Sole right grazing | 3,342,315 | 642,217 | 220,756 | 148,586 | 4,353,874 |
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Common grazing | 598,472 | 427,889 | 180,305 | 29,418 | 1,236,084 |
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Total rough grazing | 3,940,787 | 1,070,106 | 401,061 | 178,004 | 5,589,958 |
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Total crops, fallow, set-aside, grass and rough |
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grazing | 5,796,544 | 9,228,630 | 1,568,898 | 1,043,370 | 17,637,442 |
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Woodland | 238,024 | 291,662 | 44,934 | 8,609 | 583,229 |
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Other land | 80,597 | 185,971 | 15,156 | 7,092 | 288,816 |
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Total agricultural area | 6,115,165 | 9,706,263 | 1,628,988 | 1,059,071 | 18,509,487 |
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Total land area (4) | 7,792,000 | 13,028,000 | 2,073,000 | 1,358,000 | 24,251,000 |
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(1) Refers only to holdings actively engaged in agriculture but excludes sheep stock clubs in Scotland.
(2) Includes rye for England and Wales and triticale for Wales.
(3) Flax not collected for Scotland in 2005.
(4) As at January 2003. Data source: e-Digest of Environmental Statistics, published by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, January 2006.
na Information not available.
nc Information not collected.
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