Environment and Countryside Management: Results from the Farm Business Survey

?Other publications   Results from the 2010/11 FBS: http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/foodfarm/farmmanage/fbs/publications/farmaccounts/   Provisional estimates of farm business income for 2011/12: http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/foodfarm/farmmanage/fbs/publications/fbsincomes/   Campaign for the Farmed Environment, Results from the Farm Business Survey 2010/11: http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/foodfarm/farmmanage/fbs/publications/envcountryman/    Definitions Countryside maintenance and management activities The countryside maintenance and management section of the FBS recorded a variety of data for 28 specific activities. For Tables 6 and 7 and Figures 10 and 11 these activities were grouped according to their equivalent agri-environment scheme options from the Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) and Organic Entry Level Stewardship. Details of the schemes can be found in Section 3 of the Entry Level Stewardship Environmental Stewardship Handbook, available for download at: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/30034?category=45001   Cost of Countryside maintenance and management activities The costs charged against CMMA for the purpose of this analysis are the total of nine individual costs recorded against each managed feature. These are: Variable costs Paid labour costs Unpaid labour costs Machinery costs Contracting costs Farmer & spouse labour Capital costs Capital grants Property repairs, maintenance & upkeep   Size of farm businesses Farm business size in the United Kingdom is measured in Standard Labour Requirements (SLR) expressed in terms of full-time equivalents (FTE). Five size groups are defined for this report: Spare-time (less than or equal to 0.5 FTE) Part-time (greater than 0.5 FTE and less than 1.0) Small (greater than or equal to 1 FTE and less than 2) Medium (greater than or equal to 2 FTE and less than 3) Large (greater than or equal to 3 FTE and less than 5) Very large (greater than or equal to 5 FTE) If you require the datasets in a more accessible format, please contact [email protected]