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Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2011 Edition

Published: 15 June 2011
ISBN: 9781780452111

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Table B12: Net farm income, outputs and inputs by performance quartile: 2009/10

	Lower	Upper	All	Lower	Upper	All
	Cereals			General Cropping
	25%	25%	All	25%	25%	All
Number of farms	20	20	77	14	14	54
Average size of business ( SLR)	2	2	2	4	3	3
Average size of farm (hectares)	161	152	156	205	180	189
Area of cereals (hectares)	107	109	104	109	82	98
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	9	8	9	6	5	6
Number of ewes	11	32	19	15	89	40
Number of suckler cows	1	2	4	29	19	20
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	29	47	42	100	61	60
OUTPUT
Cereals	68,184	88,107	74,017	88,997	60,546	71,617
Potatoes	1,470	2,701	1,818	77,613	60,140	57,443
Other crops	21,013	14,711	20,026	44,997	22,459	30,218
Total Crops	90,667	105,519	95,861	211,606	143,145	159,277
Cattle	9,010	17,428	16,170	43,482	27,631	26,510
Sheep	2,681	3,646	3,209	3,800	16,800	6,750
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	20	0	0	0
Milk	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other livestock	0	0	1	0	0	75
Total livestock	11,691	21,074	19,400	47,281	44,431	33,335
Miscellaneous	25,280	6,440	13,943	14,819	20,522	17,373
Subsidy and payments	40,471	47,358	43,516	55,040	49,440	47,490
(of which LFASS)	(0)	(94)	(99)	(1860)	(1747)	(1324)
(of which SFP)	(38,370)	(43,753)	(40,701)	(50,803)	(45,699)	(44,359)
Total Output	168,109	180,391	172,720	328,747	257,538	257,475
INPUTS
Feed	5,645	8,917	7,689	17,984	11,710	11,263
(of which home produced)	(1,569)	(4,344)	(3,303)	(3899)	(4,391)	(3,440)
Other livestock expenses	1,662	2,687	2,696	8,610	6,397	5,370
Seeds	7,843	7,682	7,752	22,966	14,229	16,289
(of which home grown)	(543)	(1712)	(883)	(6,913)	(6,227)	(5,640)
Fertilisers	30,006	21,943	26,982	54,136	22,347	34,103
Other crop expenses	16,802	15,048	15,873	35,273	21,139	24,272
Labour	20,366	8,258	14,970	47,966	23,175	32,721
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	37,964	25,092	31,074	48,775	41,209	42,708
Machinery depreciation	33,656	18,850	24,547	63,670	28,931	37,786
Land and building costs	30,862	21,081	26,429	51,668	34,881	38,568
Miscellaneous	15,093	9,171	12,064	19,791	13,163	15,690
Total Inputs	199,898	138,730	170,074	370,840	217,180	258,769
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-31,789	41,661	2,645	-42,093	40,358	-1,294

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12: Net farm income, outputs and inputs by performance quartile: 2009/10

	Lower	Upper	All	Lower	Upper	All
	Dairy			Specialist Sheep ( LFA)
	25%	25%	All	25%	25%	All
Number of farms	13	13	51	11	11	41
Average size of business ( SLR)	4	7	4	3	7	3
Average size of farm (hectares)	130	221	141	451	2,644	624
Area of cereals (hectares)	9	9	7	1	0	0
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of ewes	36	97	52	566	1,311	537
Number of suckler cows	5	11	6	3	24	5
Number of Dairy Cows	117	199	132	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	202	283	196	11	36	10
Output Yield per Dairy Cow (ltrs)	5,636	7,371	7,632
Revenue Value Pence per Litre	22.4	23.7	23.1
OUTPUT
Cereals	4,925	5,339	3,775	233	0	70
Potatoes	110	0	160	0	0	0
Other crops	3,404	7,457	5,041	1,354	814	1,888
Total Crops	8,439	12,796	8,976	1,586	814	1,957
Cattle	51,453	107,523	62,669	5,612	11,452	4,370
Sheep	4,870	10,038	5,725	31,541	56,740	29,835
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	167	0	0	0
Milk	152,852	360,257	214,358	0	0	0
Other livestock	10	39	6	-144	-126	-57
Total livestock	209,185	477,855	282,925	37,009	68,066	34,149
Miscellaneous	4,589	4,591	4,271	6,486	4,323	14,572
Subsidy and payments	36,593	71,574	43,081	29,049	97,916	37,737
(of which LFASS)	(814)	(3,400)	(1,888)	(6,033)	(23,409)	(7,415)
(of which SFP)	(34,388)	(65,991)	(39,503)	(21,544)	(65,658)	(25,892)
Total Output	258,806	566,816	339,253	74,130	171,119	88,415
INPUTS
Feed	89,103	154,949	100,102	13,894	20,707	10,585
(of which home produced)	(3,728)	(5,643)	(3,346)	(97)	(0)	(30)
Other livestock expenses	24,519	43,925	28,582	7,961	13,770	7,827
Seeds	2,177	2,956	1,934	330	247	150
(of which home grown)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Fertilisers	18,050	27,847	20,731	4,613	2,291	3,441
Other crop expenses	3,246	5,235	3,424	859	203	521
Labour	45,858	54,885	38,133	10,874	18,135	6,780
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	35,887	52,526	36,646	8,575	15,725	10,210
Machinery depreciation	18,735	26,437	20,586	9,806	10,878	8,243
Land and building costs	30,304	50,360	32,813	12,084	17,723	13,919
Miscellaneous	16,001	15,468	13,606	7,463	10,418	7,992
Total Inputs	283,879	434,587	296,557	76,459	110,097	69,669
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-25,074	132,229	42,696	-2,328	61,022	18,746

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12: Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2009/10

	Lower	Upper	All	Lower	Upper	All
	Specialist Beef ( LFA)			Cattle and Sheep ( LFA)
	25%	25%	All	25%	25%	All
Number of farms	29	29	114	16	16	61
Average size of business ( SLR)	2	2	2	4	7	4
Average size of farm (hectares)	181	195	190	394	1,106	618
Area of cereals (hectares)	6	5	6	8	22	9
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of ewes	164	168	161	634	1,025	616
Number of suckler cows	82	99	83	55	117	63
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	5	0	0
Number of other cattle	134	154	133	69	208	91
OUTPUT
Cereals	2,543	2,057	2,789	2,580	9,546	3,588
Potatoes	0	0	0	0	921	434
Other crops	889	3,576	2,055	2,697	1,655	1,375
Total Crops	3,432	5,632	4,843	5,277	12,122	5,397
Cattle	57,557	85,176	61,245	30,025	96,185	42,068
Sheep	15,080	15,515	15,445	38,945	84,320	43,330
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	0	298	0	182
Milk	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other livestock	-152	1	-16	24	17	191
Total livestock	72,485	100,692	76,674	69,293	180,522	85,770
Miscellaneous	5,651	11,877	6,102	5,508	9,110	6,555
Subsidy and payments	48,295	65,231	53,029	60,585	118,492	66,207
(of which LFASS)	(7,458)	(9,740)	(8,204)	(10,097)	(20,516)	(12,352)
(of which SFP)	(38,781)	(51,455)	(41,331)	(41,978)	(89,949)	(46,667)
Total Output	129,863	183,431	140,648	140,662	320,245	163,929
INPUTS
Feed	22,019	25,588	20,415	23,235	46,473	25,164
(of which home produced)	(1,780)	(1,908)	(2,131)	(3,139)	(7,321)	(2,900)
Other livestock expenses	12,014	11,278	10,574	11,996	23,860	12,917
Seeds	1,394	1,163	1,010	2,565	3,416	1,713
(of which home grown)	(38)	(30)	(23)	(138)	(209)	(81)
Fertilisers	14,578	14,332	11,543	8,703	18,256	9,558
Other crop expenses	1,897	1,922	2,171	2,271	3,841	2,053
Labour	16,083	10,581	11,607	25,345	32,245	17,796
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	19,852	17,073	15,680	19,314	29,578	17,963
Machinery depreciation	15,309	15,233	13,165	19,284	24,296	15,350
Land and building costs	19,012	15,832	15,583	22,264	36,162	19,878
Miscellaneous	9,791	9,554	8,811	9,563	14,052	9,409
Total Inputs	131,949	122,555	110,558	144,541	232,179	131,799
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-2,086	60,876	30,090	-3,878	88,066	32,130

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12: Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2009/10

	Lower	Upper	All	Lower	Upper	All
	Lowland cattle and sheep			Mixed
	25%	25%	All	25%	25%	All
Number of farms	5	5	17	18	18	69
Average size of business ( SLR)	2	4	3	3	3	3
Average size of farm (hectares)	110	161	153	186	197	170
Area of cereals (hectares)	3	4	9	57	55	56
Area of oilseed rape (hectares)	0	0	0	1	0	1
Number of ewes	106	293	252	152	78	127
Number of suckler cows	44	132	65	47	62	48
Number of Dairy Cows	6	0	2	0	3	3
Number of other cattle	101	273	132	145	180	147
OUTPUT
Cereals	1,275	2,898	4,668	26,842	30,439	30,153
Potatoes	0	0	0	663	849	1,656
Other crops	2,631	41,008	3,449	2,678	11,087	8,511
Total Crops	3,906	43,906	8,117	30,183	42,375	40,319
Cattle	36,394	122,526	54,372	64,946	105,023	65,922
Sheep	10,031	27,935	24,027	19,691	7,978	14,882
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	0	5,936	0	705
Milk	0	0	0	0	7,998	5,500
Other livestock	2	14	-10	851	8	46
Total livestock	46,428	150,475	78,388	91,424	121,007	87,055
Miscellaneous	3,537	1,835	2,717	6,524	6,409	8,329
Subsidy and payments	25,644	95,992	42,684	50,413	56,733	52,271
(of which LFASS)	(2,104)	(2,751)	(2,894)	(2,410)	(4,102)	(2,711)
(of which SFP)	(22,541)	(77,510)	(37,837)	(46,344)	(47,048)	(46,223)
Total Output	79,514	292,207	131,906	178,543	226,523	187,974
INPUTS
Feed	16,176	43,047	21,883	29,219	27,479	25,940
(of which home produced)	(1,240)	(1,465)	(2,614)	(6,513)	(10,292)	(8,426)
Other livestock expenses	6,995	24,040	11,710	12,768	12,506	9,876
Seeds	472	2,395	1,201	4,254	4,428	4,916
(of which home grown)	(0)	(0)	(46)	(482)	(673)	(906)
Fertilisers	8,898	17,990	9,986	23,085	14,617	18,550
Other crop expenses	2,334	2,491	2,547	6,801	8,110	8,370
Labour	9,234	7,332	9,850	28,584	13,540	18,848
Machinery (excl. depreciation)	11,584	32,253	17,280	25,331	22,401	22,862
Machinery depreciation	13,114	15,056	12,024	18,304	21,750	19,458
Land and building costs	14,159	20,807	19,194	30,832	21,521	22,804
Miscellaneous	6,447	9,126	7,410	13,042	10,941	11,000
Total Inputs	89,413	174,536	113,085	192,219	157,291	162,623
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-9,899	117,672	18,821	-13,676	69,233	25,351

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

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