Results from the Scottish Agricultural Census: June 2025
Final results from the 2025 June Agricultural Census on land use, crop areas, livestock and the number of people working on agricultural holdings.
Module results on irrigation methods are also included within this publication.
First published: 30 October 2025.
Area used to grow vegetables for human consumption continues to be larger than the stockfeed area
Since 2015, the area used to grow vegetables for human consumption (excluding potatoes) has shown a general upward trend, while crops grown for animal feed (stockfeed) has remained relatively stable.
In 2025, the vegetable crop area reached 22,700 hectares, an increase of 5.4% compared with the five-year average. The increase in the area of vegetables for human consumption has mainly come from the increase in peas for canning, freezing and drying, which have increased by 11% when compared with the five-year average. Stockfeed crop area was 17,000 hectares, an increase of 3.5% compared with the five-year average.
Figure 5: Area of crops for stockfeed and vegetables for human consumption, excluding potatoes, 2015 to 2025. Note some data for 2022 were estimated based on administrative data and results in adjacent years.
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