Farm Structure Survey in the United Kingdom - 2007 - Issue number 81/2009 - Products Statistics in Focus

Permanent grassland and meadow accounts for 59% of the total UAA.

This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2007. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in the United Kingdom. 300 000 agricultural holdings were recorded in the United Kingdom in the 2007 Farm Structure Survey (5% more than in 20051).The utilized agricultural area was slightly over 16.5 million hectares.