Defra recently released statistics from the December Survey as at 2010 giving details of crops and pigs and population estimates of cattle and sheep.
The wheat cropping area remained stable again last year decreasing by 0.5% to 1.8m hectares. Winter oilseed rape areas increased by 12% to 655,000 hectares and the winter barley area decreased by 8.5% to 310,000 hectares. The area of arable land to be left out of production in 2010-11 increased by 9.3% and is 248,000 hectares. The area may change depending on factors like market conditions and the weather. The amount of hay produced in 2010 was 2m tonnes and the grass silage produced amounted to 20.5m tonnes. Silage from other crops totalled 5m tonnes.
On the livestock side, the total number of cattle and calves decreased by 1% to 5.4m. Pigs decreased in number by 1.7% from 3.6m to 3.5m and there were 415,000 breeding pigs. Sheep and lambs remained stable at 9.9m.
Monday, 21 March 2011
March Unemployment Up To 8%
The March 2011 labour market ststistics from the ONS say that the unemployment rate was 8% with 2.53m unemployed people in the UK. The employment rate was 70.5% with 29.16m people in employment. Inactivity measured 23.3% or 9.33m economically inactive people aged 16-64. Total pay (pay including bonuses) increased by 2.3% on the previous year and regular pay by 2.2%.
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