Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture: 2008 Edition

Table B12 Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2006-07

	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
	Specialist cereals			General cropping
Number of farms	14	14	56	11	11	43
Average size of business ( SLR)	1	2	2	3	3	3
Average size of farm (hectares)	129	212	149	158	170	165
Area of cereals (hectares)	76	133	90	80	88	78
Number of ewes	34	5	23	76	19	49
Number of suckler cows	3	4	5	14	12	16
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	60	68	55	109	68	70
OUTPUT
Cereals	42,481	80,014	59,973	58,640	58,230	49,850
Potatoes	377	3,877	2,616	64,019	88,882	65,316
Oilseed Rape	4,099	4,806	4,311	0	4,245	4,806
Other crops	11,907	11,090	13,836	32,636	11,394	12,369
Total Crops	58,863	99,787	80,737	155,295	162,751	132,342
Cattle	11,021	21,121	12,788	26,846	20,392	16,130
Sheep	1,919	1,014	2,320	5,476	4,441	3,978
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milk	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other livestock	0	-11	-9	0	37	65
Total livestock	12,940	22,124	15,099	32,321	24,870	20,174
Miscellaneous	12,259	7,935	10,723	21,044	45,086	45,086
Subsidy and payments	27,959	51,789	34,662	32,481	38,124	38,124
(of which LFASS)	(41)	(47)	(49)	(0)	(129)	(158)
(of which SFP)	(26,445)	(48,938)	(31,705)	(31,048)	(33,787)	(31,507)
Total Output	112,022	181,635	141,220	241,141	270,831	203,007
INPUTS
Feed	6,492	7,116	5,335	16,870	10,433	7,174
(of which home produced)	(3,570)	(3,115)	(2,378)	(897)	(3,329)	(1,800)
Other livestock expenses	2,749	4,219	2,703	5,427	4,268	3,340
Seeds	4,363	7,009	5,160	6,625	11,780	9,309
(of which home grown)	(515)	(1,877)	(633)	(42)	(5,552)	(3,669)
Fertilisers	11,978	16,520	13,392	13,395	16,276	14,145
Other crop expenses	8,912	14,111	11,585	22,119	19,938	16,338
Labour	13,153	12,520	12,558	38,610	22,842	19,981
Machinery (excluding depreciation)	20,298	21,363	22,091	60,408	39,965	33,015
Machinery depreciation	15,311	16,300	14,314	29,972	29,137	20,528
Land and building costs	21,923	26,294	22,225	35,330	33,524	31,067
Miscellaneous	10,134	9,006	9,577	16,934	10,588	11,612
Total Inputs	115,312	134,456	118,940	245,689	198,752	166,509
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-3,291	47,179	22,280	-4,549	72,079	36,499
BLSA	107	137	144	22	131	259
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	-3,183	47,316	22,424	-4,527	72,210	36,758
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	3,396	6,149	5,775	-3,314	31,690	17,451
Net Cash Income	16,080	60,861	40,393	32,051	80,069	46,992

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12 Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2006-07 (continued)

	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
	Dairy			LFA: Specialist sheep
Number of farms	16	16	63	11	11	41
Average size of business ( SLR)	4	6	4	2	3	2
Average size of farm (hectares)	116	174	122	427	601	593
Area of cereals (hectares)	9	14	8	0	0	0
Number of ewes	46	46	50	565	616	513
Number of suckler cows	2	5	4	4	9	6
Number of Dairy Cows	112	183	119	0	0	0
Number of other cattle	173	249	177	16	23	15
OUTPUT
Cereals	4,733	6,985	3,962	17	0	72
Potatoes	115	0	114	0	0	0
Oilseed Rape	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other crops	2,468	4,139	2,651	796	757	840
Total Crops	7,316	11,124	6,726	813	757	912
Cattle	25,437	58,186	37,035	2,682	4,784	2,637
Sheep	3,462	3,485	3,441	20,727	16,062	16,762
Pigs	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	0	0	224	0	0	0
Milk	121,651	253,756	145,271	0	0	0
Other livestock	-26	-1	2	-73	10	-27
Total livestock	150,524	315,426	185,973	23,336	20,857	19,372
Miscellaneous	3,364	8,603	4,072	2,717	2,769	5,394
Subsidy and payments	25,011	49,502	30,813	19,894	34,344	22,744
(of which LFASS)	(387)	(341)	(704)	(3,705)	(6,545)	(4,167)
(of which SFP)	(23,696)	(48,109)	(29,525)	(14,295)	(18,797)	(14,323)
Total Output	186,215	384,655	227,584	46,760	58,725	48,421
INPUTS
Feed	55,059	85,833	56,821	8,566	4,883	6,540
(of which home produced)	(5,439)	(3,059)	(2,772)	(19)	(0)	(72)
Other livestock expenses	15,738	28,446	18,693	6,033	5,115	5,242
Seeds	1,862	1,844	1,309	356	42	217
(of which home grown)	(12)	(30)	(17)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Fertilisers	10,606	17,446	11,674	2,003	1,393	1,511
Other crop expenses	3,314	4,539	2,683	228	100	300
Labour	30,098	47,311	28,290	14,017	4,438	7,386
Machinery (excluding depreciation)	24,513	36,311	24,552	10,192	4,498	6,557
Machinery depreciation	12,075	20,803	13,427	6,200	5,904	6,505
Land and building costs	30,679	36,762	26,150	9,157	8,159	7,856
Miscellaneous	10,581	13,220	10,526	5,556	4,583	4,830
Total Inputs	194,526	292,513	194,125	62,307	39,114	46,944
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-8,311	92,142	33,459	-15,547	19,612	1,478
BLSA	6,787	11,215	6,870	-32	231	55
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	-1,523	103,357	40,329	-15,579	19,842	1,532
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	9,864	26,671	14,455	-2,981	13	-1,026
Net Cash Income	20,215	118,118	54,490	4,580	27,777	14,967

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12 Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2006-07 (continued)

	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
	LFA: Specialist beef			LFA: Cattle and sheep
Number of farms	30	30	119	16	16	62
Average size of business ( SLR)	2	3	2	3	5	4
Average size of farm (hectares)	182	222	176	491	594	680
Area of cereals (hectares)	1	9	7	5	21	7
Number of ewes	243	172	179	580	613	639
Number of suckler cows	77	100	90	53	85	61
Number of Dairy Cows	0	0	0	0	5	2
Number of other cattle	168	272	226	121	236	149
OUTPUT
Cereals	446	4,113	3,136	1,666	9,897	2,841
Potatoes	0	0	0	0	239	85
Oilseed Rape	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other crops	824	793	1,161	997	549	287
Total Crops	1,269	4,906	4,297	2,663	10,685	3,213
Cattle	29,285	60,977	46,218	23,501	51,361	29,400
Sheep	12,605	9,618	10,384	21,623	31,017	26,030
Pigs	0	0	0	117	0	28
Poultry and eggs	0	0	0	0	0	191
Milk	8	0	2	0	6,547	2,338
Other livestock	135	11	47	175	32	60
Total livestock	42,033	70,606	56,650	45,416	88,958	58,047
Miscellaneous	4,003	5,040	3,643	5,837	4,372	5,314
Subsidy and payments	34,601	52,937	43,854	39,449	67,129	48,883
(of which LFASS)	(4,975)	(6,560)	(5,344)	(6,482)	(8,921)	(7,644)
(of which SFP)	(29,218)	(42,055)	(35,739)	(27,653)	(53,579)	(35,227)
Total Output	81,906	133,489	108,444	93,365	171,143	115,456
INPUTS
Feed	17,001	18,812	17,614	17,534	18,879	18,909
(of which home produced)	(320)	(2,622)	(2,239)	(940)	(3,760)	(1,979)
Other livestock expenses	9,163	9,685	9,734	9,952	14,277	10,992
Seeds	350	1,048	884	836	2,599	1,070
(of which home grown)	(10)	(70)	(26)	(28)	(9)	(26)
Fertilisers	6,085	8,456	7,412	4,946	9,908	5,900
Other crop expenses	1,126	2,184	1,591	1,120	2,161	1,368
Labour	13,563	8,343	10,201	21,819	15,635	15,554
Machinery (excluding depreciation)	12,212	13,483	13,356	12,968	18,141	14,103
Machinery depreciation	11,052	9,977	10,324	11,880	13,880	10,872
Land and building costs	13,478	16,301	15,335	16,046	22,599	16,953
Miscellaneous	8,098	7,557	7,572	8,539	11,388	8,389
Total Inputs	92,129	95,845	94,023	105,638	129,467	104,110
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	-10,222	37,644	14,421	-12,273	41,677	11,347
BLSA	4,291	4,617	4,810	2,057	4,071	2,925
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	-5,931	42,261	19,230	-10,215	45,748	14,271
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	4,384	5,418	6,034	-1,166	4,255	3,919
Net Cash Income	11,933	48,992	29,101	14,089	65,487	28,337

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

Table B12 Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2006-07 (continued)

	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All	Lower 25%	Upper 25%	All
	Lowland cattle and sheep			Mixed
Number of farms			11	16	16	63
Average size of business ( SLR)	"	"	3	2	3	3
Average size of farm (hectares)	"	"	171	176	214	192
Area of cereals (hectares)	"	"	8	50	54	49
Number of ewes	"	"	262	121	115	129
Number of suckler cows	"	"	85	45	57	55
Number of Dairy Cows	"	"	0	6	4	3
Number of other cattle	"	"	233	167	211	196
OUTPUT
Cereals	"	"	4,814	28,165	29,854	25,801
Potatoes	"	"	0	63	1,293	860
Oilseed Rape	"	"	0	2,343	588	758
Other crops	"	"	2,523	3,283	10,023	4,203
Total Crops	"	"	7,337	33,855	41,758	31,622
Cattle	"	"	54,730	44,809	53,663	48,871
Sheep	"	"	15,043	7,519	9,223	10,108
Pigs	"	"	0	0	0	0
Poultry and eggs	"	"	0	188	0	63
Milk	"	"	0	4,899	6,281	4,229
Other livestock	"	"	-50	0	0	14
Total livestock	"	"	69,723	57,415	69,167	63,286
Miscellaneous	"	"	2,361	3,207	7,559	5,944
Subsidy and payments	"	"	40,048	44,652	53,606	46,529
(of which LFASS)	"	"	(3,474)	(1,806)	(2,570)	(2,300)
(of which SFP)			(35,392)	(40,223)	(45,721)	(40,502)
Total Output	"	"	119,470	139,129	172,089	147,381
INPUTS
Feed	"	"	23,194	21,709	17,514	19,664
(of which home produced)	"	"	(2,695)	(7,671)	(6,753)	(6,929)
Other livestock expenses	"	"	11,463	9,879	7,845	9,116
Seeds	"	"	1,120	3,514	3,135	3,198
(of which home grown)	"	"	95	490	644	469
Fertilisers	"	"	7,593	12,090	9,151	10,434
Other crop expenses	"	"	1,597	5,359	5,426	5,443
Labour	"	"	7,443	25,871	13,620	17,579
Machinery (excluding depreciation)	"	"	14,648	24,342	17,347	18,969
Machinery depreciation	"	"	8,593	11,307	15,239	12,650
Land and building costs	"	"	15,921	21,879	19,662	20,041
Miscellaneous	"	"	6,677	12,763	7,843	9,766
Total Inputs	"	"	98,250	148,714	116,783	126,859
NET FARM INCOME (excl. BLSA) ⁽¹⁾	"	"	21,220	-9,585	55,306	20,521
BLSA	"	"	5,661	841	1,454	1,330
Net farm income (inc. BLSA)	"	"	26,881	-8,744	56,760	21,851
Total Valuation Change (inc. BLSA)	"	"	17,887	-5,979	8,070	4,563
Net Cash Income	"	"	19,647	20,797	71,419	39,715

(1) BLSA: Breeding livestock appreciation.

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Table B12 Net farm income, outputs and inputs performance bands by quartile: 2006-07