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Land Rented in

• Almost 47,000 farms had land which was rented in and combined totalled 830,500 hectares.

• Of those farms that rented in land, half (53%) were Specialist Beef production and 20% were Specialist Dairying.

• Almost 15% of all farms rented in more than 50% of their total area farmed.

• There were 5,700 farms where 100% of the farm land was rented in.

Woodland

• There were 117,300 hectares of woodland on farms in Ireland in 2016.

Gainful non-agricultural activity

• Over 16,400 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 8,000 farms engaged in this activity

• Almost 5000 farms engaged in agricultural contracting.

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

Table 6.2 was updated on the 1st of March 2019 to correct farm type and Standard Output values. 　

Table 6.1 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of land rented in each region 2016

Table 6.2 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) - 2016

Table 6.2 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)
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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	4.9	17.5	1.5	8.2	0.4	2.1	1.4	4.5	0.8	1.9	0.7	0.7
10 - < 20	8.7	66.6	1.4	20.4	0.5	6.4	3.1	25.0	1.9	10.5	1.8	4.3
20 - < 30	7.9	87.9	1.0	25.3	0.4	8.9	1.8	24.9	2.2	19.6	2.5	9.1
30 - < 50	12.0	189.3	1.1	41.0	0.6	18.9	2.4	53.0	3.7	51.9	4.3	24.5
50 - < 100	10.7	279.1	0.6	37.4	0.5	27.9	2.2	87.5	3.6	89.2	3.9	37.2
>= 100	2.9	190.0	0.1	21.8	0.3	39.0	0.7	66.0	0.8	42.9	0.9	20.3

Farm type
Specialist tillage	2.1	81.1	0.4	17.8	0.2	23.1	0.3	20.4	0.4	11.7	0.8	8.0
Specialist dairying	9.6	218.3	0.2	13.7	0.2	12.2	1.9	74.5	3.6	84.2	3.7	33.7
Specialist beef production	25.0	337.6	3.1	70.3	1.4	38.5	7.2	113.4	6.5	80.5	6.7	34.9
Specialist sheep	3.8	66.5	1.1	29.1	0.3	10.2	0.7	13.7	0.8	9.1	0.9	4.4
Mixed grazing livestock	4.4	82.1	0.5	13.7	0.3	11.4	1.0	27.2	1.2	20.9	1.3	9.0
Mixed crops and livestock	0.9	24.2	0.1	4.1	0.0	3.5	0.2	7.4	0.2	5.7	0.4	3.6
Mixed field crops	0.9	13.3	0.2	4.3	0.1	3.3	0.1	2.3	0.2	1.8	0.2	1.6
Other	0.4	7.3	0.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.1	2.3	0.1	2.1	0.1	1.1

Economic size (SO)¹
Less than €4,000	3.7	20.1	1.0	7.9	0.3	1.7	1.4	7.7	0.5	1.9	0.5	0.8
€4,000 - < €8,0000	4.5	37.1	1.0	13.9	0.3	3.9	1.5	12.6	0.9	4.7	0.8	1.9
€8,000 - < €15,000	6.9	72.9	1.3	25.6	0.5	8.6	1.8	20.3	1.7	13.1	1.7	5.4
€15,000 - < €25,000	7.2	94.7	0.9	26.1	0.5	11.7	1.7	27.3	2.0	20.4	2.1	9.2
€25,000 - < €50,000	8.6	147.6	0.9	33.7	0.5	17.8	1.8	42.5	2.5	36.1	3.0	17.6
€50,000 - < €100,000	5.7	125.5	0.3	20.5	0.3	15.8	1.1	36.9	1.8	35.3	2.2	17.0
€100,000 +	10.5	332.7	0.3	26.2	0.4	43.8	2.2	113.8	3.7	104.4	3.8	44.5

Total	47.0	830.5	5.7	154.1	2.7	103.2	11.5	261.0	13.0	216.0	14.1	96.2
¹ Standard Output is the average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate prices. See background notes.

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Table 6.3 Number of farms having woodland and area of woodland classified by farmsize (AAU) in each region and county - 2016

Table 6.4 Number of farms reporting gainful non-agricultural activity on the farm and the type of activity undertaken in each region - 2016

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Table 6.1 Number of farms having land rented in and area rented in classified by proportion of land rented in each region 2016
'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	47.0	830.5	5.7	154.1	2.7	103.2	11.5	261.0	13.0	216.0	14.1	96.2

Border, Midland and Western	22.6	338.8	2.7	67.8	1.3	40.1	5.8	107.1	6.4	87.3	6.4	36.5
Border	9.4	136.9	1.3	29.8	0.6	17.3	2.5	44.1	2.6	32.3	2.5	13.4
Midland	4.7	84.9	0.6	15.6	0.3	10.0	1.2	25.5	1.3	23.5	1.4	10.3
West	8.5	117.1	0.8	22.4	0.4	12.8	2.1	37.5	2.6	31.6	2.5	12.8

Southern and Eastern	24.4	491.7	3.0	86.3	1.4	63.1	5.8	153.9	6.6	128.7	7.7	59.7
Mid-East and Dublin	4.3	109.2	0.6	18.1	0.4	24.2	1.2	34.6	1.1	22.2	1.1	10.1
Mid-West	5.4	93.8	0.6	15.9	0.3	8.1	1.4	32.3	1.5	26.2	1.7	11.4
South-East	6.9	141.1	0.8	24.1	0.3	16.2	1.4	40.5	1.8	39.3	2.4	20.9
South-West	7.8	147.6	0.9	28.1	0.4	14.7	1.8	46.4	2.2	41.0	2.5	17.3

Table 6.4 Number of farms reporting gainful non-agricultural activity on the farm and the type of activity undertaken in each region - 2016
'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	16.4	7.2	2.7	1.7	2.9	9.2	1.4	2.0	2.6	3.2
Farm tourism	1.2	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3
Home crafts	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1
Processing farm products	1.3	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
Renewable energy production	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Wood processing	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
Fish farming	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Agricultural contracting	4.9	2.2	0.9	0.5	0.8	2.7	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.9
Other contracting	2.0	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.4	1.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Forestry	8.0	3.4	1.2	0.9	1.3	4.6	0.6	1.1	1.3	1.6
Provision of health, social or educational services	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
¹A number of farms reported two or more types of gainful non-agricultural activities