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Land Rented in

• Almost 45,000 farms had land which was rented in and combined totalled 800,000 hectares.

• Of those farms that rented in land, over half were Specialist beef production and 20% were Specialist dairying.

• One in eight of all farms (12.5%) rented in more than 50% of their total area farmed.

• There were 4,900 farms where 100% of the farm land was rented in.

Woodland

• There were 147,900 hectares of woodland on farms in Ireland in 2013.

Gainful non-agricultural activity

• Over 12,000 farms reported that they also undertook gainful non-agricultural activity on the farm as a supplement to traditional farming, almost 60% of which were in the Southern and Eastern region

• Forestry was the principal activity with 6,300 farms engaged in this activity

• Over 2000 farms engaged in agricultural contracting.

• Farm Tourism was undertaken by 1,200 farms as a supplementary activity.

Table 5.1 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of land rented in each region 2013

Table 5.2 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of rented land,farm size (AAU), type of farm and economic size (SO)

Table 5.2 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of rented land,
farm size (AAU), type of farm and economic size (SO)
( '000)
Farm characteristics	Farms with land rented in		Proportion of AAU rented in
	Farms with land rented in		100%		> 75% - < 100%		> 50% - 75%		> 25% - 50%		> 0% - 25%
	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares

Farm size (AAU) - hectares
< 10	4.0	14.4	1.4	7.5	0.5	2.2	0.6	2.2	0.8	1.8	0.8	0.7
10 - < 20	7.8	60.2	1.2	17.8	0.5	6.9	2.7	22.2	1.7	9.4	1.8	4.0
20 - < 30	7.3	79.9	0.9	21.1	0.5	10.1	1.4	20.4	2.2	19.8	2.4	8.5
30 - < 50	12.2	191.8	0.9	35.6	0.7	23.8	2.1	49.1	4.1	58.0	4.4	25.2
50 - < 100	10.4	273.0	0.4	28.9	0.6	34.9	2.0	81.8	3.8	92.8	3.7	34.5
>= 100	2.6	180.9	0.1	18.6	0.3	47.4	0.6	60.0	0.8	39.1	0.8	15.8

Farm type
Specialist tillage	2.1	79.9	0.4	14.4	0.3	26.8	0.3	21.8	0.4	11.4	0.7	5.5
Specialist dairying	8.9	190.2	0.2	9.7	0.2	13.2	1.5	60.1	3.5	78.1	3.5	29.1
Specialist beef production	23.1	324.2	2.8	59.8	1.6	46.7	5.6	98.2	6.6	85.5	6.6	34.0
Specialist sheep	3.6	64.6	0.9	25.0	0.4	13.2	0.7	12.5	0.8	9.4	0.9	4.4
Mixed grazing livestock	4.7	92.5	0.4	12.0	0.4	14.7	1.0	29.5	1.4	25.7	1.5	10.6
Mixed crops and livestock	1.0	28.5	0.1	3.7	0.1	5.8	0.2	8.5	0.3	7.1	0.4	3.5
Mixed field crops	0.4	8.5	0.0	1.5	0.0	1.6	0.1	2.5	0.1	2.0	0.1	1.0
Other	0.7	11.6	0.2	3.5	0.1	3.2	0.1	2.5	0.1	1.7	0.2	0.7

Economic size (SO)¹
Less than €4,000	4.2	28.2	1.1	10.2	0.4	3.1	1.6	11.2	0.6	2.8	0.5	0.9
€4,000 - < €8,0000	4.7	42.9	1.0	14.6	0.4	7.0	1.2	11.6	1.1	7.2	1.0	2.5
€8,000 - < €15,000	7.1	82.6	1.1	24.4	0.6	12.6	1.4	20.4	2.0	17.9	2.0	7.3
€15,000 - < €25,000	7.0	99.8	0.7	22.5	0.5	14.9	1.3	25.0	2.1	26.4	2.3	10.9
€25,000 - < €50,000	7.7	142.4	0.6	25.6	0.5	20.7	1.3	37.9	2.4	40.2	2.8	18.0
€50,000 - < €100,000	5.8	133.5	0.3	14.7	0.3	20.4	1.1	40.0	1.9	40.8	2.2	17.7
€100,000 +	8.0	270.7	0.2	17.5	0.4	46.6	1.6	89.4	3.0	85.6	2.8	31.5

Total	44.5	800.2	4.9	129.5	3.1	125.3	9.5	235.6	13.2	220.9	13.8	88.8
¹ Standard Output is the average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate prices. See background notes.

Open in Excel: Farm Structure Survey 2013 Table 5.2 (XLS 14KB)

Table 5.3 Number of farms having woodland and area of woodland classified by farmsize (AAU) in each region and county 2013

Table 5.4 Number of farms reporting gainful non-agricultural activity on the farm and the type of activity undertaken in each region 2013

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Table 5.1 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of land rented in each region 2013
(' 000)
Region	Farms with land rented in		Proportion of AAU rented in
	Farms with land rented in		100%		> 75% - < 100%		> 50% - 75%		> 25% - 50%		> 0% - 25%
	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares

State	44.5	800.2	4.9	129.5	3.1	125.3	9.5	235.6	13.2	220.9	13.8	88.8

Border, Midland and Western	21.4	323.6	2.3	55.5	1.4	47.0	4.7	97.0	6.5	89.7	6.4	34.5
Border	9.0	131.5	1.1	25.1	0.6	20.1	2.0	39.5	2.6	33.6	2.5	13.3
Midland	4.4	81.0	0.5	12.6	0.3	12.1	0.9	23.8	1.3	23.6	1.4	8.9
West	8.0	111.1	0.7	17.8	0.5	14.7	1.8	33.7	2.6	32.5	2.5	12.4

Southern and Eastern	23.1	476.5	2.6	74.0	1.6	78.3	4.7	138.7	6.7	131.2	7.4	54.3
Mid-East and Dublin	4.1	108.7	0.5	14.5	0.4	30.3	1.0	32.5	1.1	22.2	1.1	9.1
Mid-West	5.1	90.2	0.6	13.8	0.3	9.8	1.1	28.0	1.5	27.7	1.6	10.9
South-East	6.5	136.2	0.7	22.2	0.4	20.0	1.2	36.5	1.8	39.4	2.4	18.2
South-West	7.4	141.3	0.8	23.5	0.5	18.2	1.5	41.7	2.2	41.8	2.4	16.1

Table 5.3 Number of farms having woodland and area of woodland¹ classified by farmsize (AAU) in each region and county - 2013
('000)
Region	Woodland		Area of woodland (hectares)
	Woodland		< 10		10 - < 50		50 - < 100		> = 100
	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares	farms	hectares

State	16.9	147.9	1.8	13.2	10.2	77.6	3.8	38.7	1.1	18.4

Border, Midland and Western	7.2	62.7	0.9	5.7	4.8	34.6	1.2	15.5	0.3	7.0
Border	2.7	23.6	0.4	2.1	1.9	11.4	0.4	6.9	0.1	3.2
Midland	1.7	16.5	0.2	1.1	1.0	8.0	0.4	4.9	0.1	2.6
West	2.8	22.6	0.4	2.5	2.0	15.1	0.4	3.7	0.1	1.2

Southern and Eastern	9.7	85.2	0.9	7.6	5.4	43.0	2.6	23.2	0.8	11.4
Mid-East and Dublin	1.3	11.8	0.1	1.5	0.6	4.7	0.4	3.3	0.2	2.2
Mid-West	2.3	20.3	0.2	2.0	1.4	11.6	0.5	5.0	0.1	1.7
South-East	2.6	21.0	0.2	1.5	1.3	8.7	0.9	6.2	0.3	4.6
South-West	3.5	32.2	0.3	2.5	2.1	18.1	0.9	8.6	0.2	3.0
¹ The area of woodland is not included in area farmed (AAU)

Table 5.4 Number of farms reporting gainful non-agricultural activity on the farm and the type of activity undertaken in each region - 2013
('000)
Type of gainful non-agricultural activity¹	State	Region
Type of gainful non-agricultural activity¹	State	Border, Midland and Western	Border	Midland	West	Southern and Eastern	Mid-East and Dublin	Mid-West	South-East	South-West

Number of farms reporting gainful non-agricultural activity	12.1	4.9	1.9	1.1	1.9	7.2	1.2	1.7	2.0	2.4

Farm tourism	1.2	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3
Recreational activities	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Home crafts	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Processing farm products	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Renewable energy production	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Wood processing	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1
Fish farming	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Agricultural contracting	2.1	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.3	1.3	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.4
Other contracting	1.0	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Forestry	6.3	2.5	0.9	0.6	1.0	3.8	0.4	0.9	1.0	1.4
Other	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
¹A number of farms reported two or more types of gainful non-agricultural activities