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This release presents provisional estimates of land utilisation and livestock numbers in June 2022 at State level. The estimates for sheep are based on returns from the Agriculture Survey June 2022, conducted by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The estimates for cattle and for crops are obtained from administrative data from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF).
Farms where the agricultural area used was at least one hectare (2.47 acres) are included in the June Agricultural Sample Survey. Farms with less than one hectare may also be included if they were engaged in intensive production.
The results for crops are based on data obtained from the DAFM Basic Payment Scheme.
The results for cattle are obtained from DAFM’s Animal Identification and Movement (AIM) system and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF).
The June 2022 results for sheep are compiled by comparing the returns from the DAFM's 2021 Sheep Census to the returns from the CSO's Agriculture Survey June 2022. Trends are compared between the farms that returned both the DAFM Sheep Census and the Agriculture Survey June 2022. These trends are applied to each sheep category to calculate the final figures.
As the figures in the text and tables have been rounded to the nearest 100 units, there may be slight discrepancies between the sum (or difference) of the constituent items and the total shown. Percentage changes have been calculated on actual figures.
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