Stats for Farming in Scotland today
52,000 farm holdings
5.6 million hectares of farm holdings
122,000 hectares is organic farming
428,000 hectares are cereals
2.2% of farm land is organic
85% of farm holdings are less favoured status
barley is the largest crop
2.75 million tonnes of cereals are produced
600,000 breeding cattle
2.6 million breeding ewes
£532 million worth of support to farming
£1.3 million is the average net worth of a farm
farming is slightly under 1% of the Scottish economy
Compiled from Scot Gov stats by Fiona Grahame