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There are about 17,000 dairy farms in the UK, largely in the west. Average herd size is 86 cows in England, 75 in Wales and 102 in Scotland. Most cows are milked twice a day, and an average dairy cow yields 6,300 litres a year.
There are over 100,000 farm holdings, which vary widely in size. [4] [5] The main crops that are grown are wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits and vegetables. The livestock that is raised include cattle and sheep. In the drier east, farmers grow wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, and sugar beets.
The gross disposable household income in Wales per head was £9,402 in 1997 (87.4% of UK average) reaching its highest level ever in the most recent figure in 2020 of £17,592 (82.1% of UK average). [22] The percentage of people living in relative income poverty in Wales was 27% during 1994–95 to 1996–97.
"The average farm size in the south west is 170 acres and the value of agricultural land varies from £9,500 to £21,000 per acre." ... Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk. More on this ...
Farms in the U.S. continued to get larger and the number of farms fell between 2017 and 2022, new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed on Tuesday. ... The average farm size ...
The Central Lowland belt averages about 50 miles in width, [2] and contains most of the good quality agricultural land. [3] Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but with its many inlets, islands and inland lochs, it has roughly the same amount of coastline at 4,000 miles. Only a fifth of Scotland is less than 60 metres above ...
Buying 300 acres" ― around the average size of an Iowa farm ― "would cost millions of dollars.” At the same time, the number of Iowa farms with 2,000 or more acres spiked 77% from 2002 to ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] ...