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Conventions and notes
All figures are given on a calendar-year basis (all tables).
Some market support receipts and payments associated with a particular commodity are included in the output valuation. For example, Finished Cattle output includes the Scottish Beef Calf Scheme (Tables 1, 4, 6 and 6a).
Subsidies such as the Single Farm Payment and Less Favoured Area Support Scheme, are included under Total Other Subsidies (Tables 1, 4, and 5). This is especially relevant for Table 4, where the de-coupling of production-based subsidies from 2005 onwards is visible through the reduction in Gross Output value in 2005 (from 2004). Note that the bottom line Total Income From Farming is not affected by this de-coupling effect, as the de-coupled subsidy has been included as Single Farm Payment in the Total Other Subsidies row.
2007 LFASS payments were estimated at £61.0 million, a decrease of almost £40 million on 2006. This decrease occurred because of additional LFASS money that was allocated towards the end of 2006. It should be noted that this additional amount was not included in the TIFF figures published last year.
Also, in 2007 additional support for the sheep sector of £20.5m was made available in order to counter the effects of Foot and Mouth restrictions imposed in the Autumn.
Additionally, payments made for land set-aside are not included in the output valuation, but are listed separately as 'other subsidies' (Tables 1, 4, and 5).
The Finished Cattle figure takes into account the number of cattle going into the Older Cattle Disposal Scheme and also those that entered the Over Thirty Months Scheme ( OTMS) and the Calf Processing Aid Scheme, which ended in January 2006 and July 1999 respectively (Tables 1 to 5).
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 (Tables 1 to 4 and 6 to 6a).
The output and input figures presented in this booklet include those for very small holdings and also those for agricultural contractors.
Landlords' expenses are included within farm maintenance, miscellaneous expenditure and 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 (Tables 1 and 4).
The interest bill includes payments on advances for land (Tables 1 to 4).
As a result of the methodological changes made in 1998, the agricultural account now includes 'inseparable non-agricultural' activities. Some transactions within the agricultural industry are included as both outputs and inputs. Subsidy payments are incorporated into output (and incomes) estimates on an accruals basis (i.e. the account shows subsidy amounts that were allocated to a particular year, irrespective of when the actual payment was made).
The base year used in Tables 3, 4, 6 and 6A is 2000.
March 2008
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