Farm Incomes in Scotland 2007/08

TABLE 8(a)
NET FARM INCOME,OUTPUT AND INPUTS PERFORMANCE BANDS BY QUARTILE: 2007/08

£ per farm	LFA:Special Sheep			LFA:Specialist Beef
£ per farm	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
Number of farms	9	9	36	27	27	107
Average size of business ( SLR)	4	3	3	2	2	2
Average size of farm (hectares)	748	582	690	145	210	187
Area of cereals (hectares)	1	0	0	5	9	7
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of ewes	859	664	533	168	129	173
Number of suckler cows	4	8	6	76	103	87
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	7	19	12	99	178	136
OUTPUT
Cereals	525	0	246	3,310	7,003	4,911
Potatoes	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oilseed Rape	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other crops	2,325	669	215	1,305	1,041	1,151
Total Crops	2,851	669	461	4,615	8,043	6,063
Cattle	1,695	5,280	3,144	34,948	62,934	45,123
Sheep	13,963	19,826	15,285	8,368	7,137	9,179
Pigs	0	0	0	42	0	12
Poultry & eggs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milk	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other livestock	24	0	34	-4	54	29
Total livestock	15,682	25,106	18,463	43,354	70,125	54,343
Miscellaneous	3,640	4,540	8,855	4,300	3,643	3,986
Total Subsidies & Payments	34,218	81,390	31,165	37,044	54,118	46,642
(of which LFASS)	(7,631)	(20,750)	(6,994)	(6,641)	(8,851)	(7,974)
(of which SFP)	(20,501)	(41,894)	(15,976)	(27,217)	(39,751)	(33,311)
Total Output	56,390	124,589	58,944	89,313	135,929	111,033
INPUTS
Feed	8,068	12,253	7,446	19,101	18,708	19,087
(of which home produced)	(236)	(0)	(149)	(1,691)	(5,086)	(3,161)
Other livestock expenses	6,924	10,495	5,233	8,821	9,161	8,848
Seeds	195	20	237	693	1,203	983
(of which home grown)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(57)	(0)	(44)
Fertilisers	1,030	1,825	1,318	5,744	8,853	6,902
Other crop expenses	431	177	316	1,484	2,519	1,594
Labour	9,903	10,071	6,685	15,771	7,435	10,293
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	10,856	8,372	7,070	14,465	12,997	13,901
Machinery depreciation	12,345	8,317	5,697	10,401	10,318	10,348
Land & building costs	15,268	17,323	7,891	14,680	15,222	14,296
Miscellaneous	7,420	6,996	5,194	8,304	7,023	7,701
Total Inputs	72,441	75,849	47,087	99,464	93,438	93,953
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA)	-16,051	48,740	11,856	-10,151	42,491	17,081
BLSA	-392	-3,587	-655	861	1,803	1,783
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	-16,443	45,153	11,201	-9,291	44,294	18,864
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	-779	-7,846	-1,399	8,028	8,310	7,748
Net Cash Income	6,346	44,926	22,478	4,578	49,657	27,460

TABLE 8(b)
NET FARM INCOME,OUTPUT AND INPUTS PERFORMANCE BANDS BY QUARTILE: 2007/08

£ per farm	LFA:Cattle and Sheep			Cereals
£ per farm	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
Number of farms	17	17	65	16	16	61
Average size of business ( SLR)	3	5	4	1	2	2
Average size of farm (hectares)	335	698	573	131	181	157
Area of cereals (hectares)	6	11	7	75	118	94
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	0	0	0	6	13	8
Number of ewes	503	719	595	18	10	24
Number of suckler cows	49	90	58	9	5	4
Number of dairy cows	1	6	3	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	72	139	90	46	27	40
OUTPUT
Cereals	3,862	7,699	4,879	70,094	125,645	93,911
Potatoes	144	350	136	1,287	2,957	2,940
Oilseed Rape	0	0	0	4,201	15,457	6,455
Other crops	-254	2,587	1,156	13,309	19,729	15,527
Total Crops	3,753	10,635	6,171	88,891	163,788	118,833
Cattle	21,554	51,562	31,259	10,451	8,636	12,045
Sheep	12,912	29,218	22,333	666	3,037	2,026
Pigs	-154	0	-38	0	0	0
Poultry & eggs	0	20	199	0	0	0
Milk	84	10,868	3,924	0	0	0
Other livestock	-11	27	-18	0	684	108
Total livestock	34,385	91,696	57,660	11,116	12,356	14,179
Miscellaneous	7,791	6,166	4,925	8,739	44,916	15,953
Total Subsidies & Payments	44,114	88,626	55,463	30,270	44,610	35,661
(of which LFASS)	(8,909)	(15,226)	(10,466)	(0)	(52)	(116)
(of which SFP)	(27,437)	(52,757)	(34,584)	(26,952)	(40,787)	(31,852)
Total Output	90,043	197,123	124,218	139,016	265,671	184,626
INPUTS
Feed	19,295	29,293	21,473	6,862	7,534	7,392
(of which home produced)	(3,352)	(5,474)	(3,398)	(4,202)	(1,120)	(3,596)
Other livestock expenses	9,737	14,250	10,698	2,069	2,444	2,178
Seeds	871	1,546	1,029	4,865	7,008	5,939
(of which home grown)	(0)	(69)	(31)	(105)	(1825)	(988)
Fertilisers	4,569	8,477	6,218	13,242	21,948	15,932
Other crop expenses	1,109	1,919	1,364	10,682	16,415	14,053
Labour	17,002	18,871	14,854	12,468	25,390	15,616
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	14,425	17,588	14,856	21,463	33,988	25,377
Machinery depreciation	11,327	14,019	10,684	17,671	23,647	18,260
Land & building costs	16,475	22,718	16,581	28,535	26,864	24,514
Miscellaneous	7,602	10,470	8,063	10,420	12,749	10,143
Total Inputs	102,411	139,151	105,821	128,277	177,987	139,403
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA)	-12,368	57,972	18,397	10,739	87,684	45,223
BLSA	-216	1,322	719	-22	67	42
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	-12,583	59,295	19,116	10,717	87,751	45,265
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	-6,309	4,838	944	3,435	12,656	4,511
Net Cash Income	14,321	71,661	34,875	37,219	116,375	70,741

TABLE 8(c)
NET FARM INCOME,OUTPUT AND INPUTS PERFORMANCE BANDS BY QUARTILE: 2007/08

£ per farm	General Cropping			Dairy
£ per farm	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
Number of farms	10	10	40	14	15	58
Average size of business ( SLR)	10	3	3	4	6	4
Average size of farm (hectares)	101	201	163	145	157	121
Area of cereals (hectares)	40	120	85	10	17	9
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	1	4	3	0	0	0
Number of ewes	26	4	34	57	9	36
Number of suckler cows	12	13	20	7	0	3
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	125	195	126
Number of other cattle	78	62	67	208	230	171
OUTPUT
Cereals	28,944	133,137	82,720	8,397	18,079	8,155
Potatoes	4,380	87,600	56,937	903	0	177
Oilseed Rape	681	4,156	3,418	0	0	0
Other crops	7,426	33,034	18,306	3,354	3,825	2,406
Total Crops	41,431	257,927	161,381	12,654	21,903	10,737
Cattle	15,729	15,944	21,268	37,232	59,997	40,210
Sheep	2,066	30	2,117	3,787	946	2,393
Pigs	0	0	0	0	2	0
Poultry & eggs	0	0	0	0	0	313
Milk	0	0	0	148,897	341,562	186,844
Other livestock	1,537	0	96	0	0	1
Total livestock	19,332	15,974	23,481	189,915	402,507	229,761
Miscellaneous	2,065	36,261	14,712	2,911	6,816	5,332
Total Subsidies & Payments	22,182	47,534	37,568	33,843	49,739	31,450
(of which LFASS)	(642)	(197)	(315)	(751)	(848)	(927)
(of which SFP)	(20,748)	(38,071)	(33,362)	(30,286)	(45,902)	(28,531)
Total Output	85,009	357,697	237,142	239,324	480,965	277,282
INPUTS
Feed	10,892	6,393	9,985	74,763	114,982	73,562
(of which home produced)	(4,957)	(2,309)	(4,257)	(5,675)	(8,054)	(4,381)
Other livestock expenses	4,020	1,916	3,596	19,668	32,211	21,046
Seeds	2,753	18,046	11,810	1,993	2,066	1,387
(of which home grown)	(636)	(10,067)	(5,791)	(0)	(121)	(38)
Fertilisers	5,857	16,674	15,995	10,345	18,397	11,304
Other crop expenses	4,821	26,710	18,988	4,081	5,004	3,057
Labour	3,191	27,298	18,545	48,040	47,377	33,042
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	14,281	55,959	34,885	30,210	39,574	27,513
Machinery depreciation	10,653	31,069	23,778	16,006	23,822	15,225
Land & building costs	15,933	38,776	30,388	31,240	38,949	27,343
Miscellaneous	6,402	18,618	11,204	14,455	13,699	11,105
Total Inputs	78,801	241,460	179,174	250,802	336,081	224,584
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA)	6,207	116,236	57,968	-11,478	144,884	52,698
BLSA	273	418	398	15,178	26,204	15,793
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	6,480	116,654	58,366	3,700	171,088	68,491
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	2,850	37,451	20,295	19,484	50,260	28,600
Net Cash Income	20,468	120,217	71,194	19,474	164,956	69,969

TABLE 8(d)
NET FARM INCOME,OUTPUT AND INPUTS PERFORMANCE BANDS BY QUARTILE ⁽¹⁾: 2007/08

£ per farm	Lowground Cattle and Sheep			Mixed
£ per farm	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
Number of farms	3	3	12	16	15	63
Average size of business ( SLR)	"	"	2	2	3	2
Average size of farm (hectares)	"	"	134	199	250	181
Area of cereals (hectares)	"	"	9	46	77	51
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	"	"	0	2	0	0
Number of ewes	"	"	194	233	65	128
Number of suckler cows	"	"	103	33	67	50
Number of Dairy Cows	"	"	3	0	3	2
Number of other cattle	"	"	131	97	143	134
OUTPUT
Cereals	"	"	7,491	38,226	67,092	42,344
Potatoes	"	"	0	72	508	762
Oilseed Rape	"	"	0	1,479	0	222
Other crops	"	"	4,594	746	3,631	4,212
Total Crops	"	"	12,085	40,523	71,231	47,540
Cattle	"	"	46,831	30,538	48,868	44,696
Sheep	"	"	10,971	14,983	6,741	10,089
Pigs	"	"	0	0	0	0
Poultry & eggs	"	"	0	203	0	70
Milk	"	"	5,479	0	5,436	3,261
Other livestock	"	"	-48	0	0	-2
Total livestock	"	"	63,233	45,723	61,045	58,114
Miscellaneous	"	"	4,179	5,434	6,142	5,113
Total Subsidies & Payments	"	"	37,044	39,920	54,085	45,042
(of which LFASS)	"	"	(2,937)	(2,552)	(5,851)	(3,261)
(of which SFP)			(31,563)	(33,751)	(44,855)	(37,628)
Total Output	"	"	116,541	131,599	192,503	155,809
INPUTS
Feed	"	"	23,085	20,620	17,334	23,225
(of which home produced)	"	"	(4,293)	(9,841)	(5,972)	(9,649)
Other livestock expenses	"	"	10,041	9,755	6,508	8,314
Seeds	"	"	756	3,845	4,476	3,350
(of which home grown)	"	"	(10)	(337)	(628)	(565)
Fertilisers	"	"	7,210	9,504	10,735	9,942
Other crop expenses	"	"	1,501	7,412	7,697	5,844
Labour	"	"	7,330	23,734	11,945	17,014
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	"	"	14,650	22,771	21,373	20,103
Machinery depreciation	"	"	9,055	14,941	15,352	14,219
Land & building costs	"	"	15,074	23,113	21,896	19,606
Miscellaneous	"	"	6,003	13,322	9,975	9,566
Total Inputs	"	"	94,704	149,016	127,291	131,183
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA)	"	"	21,837	-17,417	65,211	24,626
BLSA	"	"	4,126	-132	1,256	816
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	"	"	25,963	-17,549	66,468	25,443
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	"	"	3,033	-1,440	16,843	9,302
Net Cash Income	"	"	36,460	19,132	75,543	40,503

(1) Due to the small number of farms in each quartile only totals are shown.

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