The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The production of crops

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19 [; shortage of labour and fertilisers, but since the end of the war there has been an apparent recovery. But until the effects of the war are eliminated from the ten-year averages, that is, until figures are available for the period 1921-30, it will not be possible to compare at all satisfactorily pre-war and post-war yields. Although this variation in yields is of interest it appears in the main to be due to climatic conditions over which the farmer has no control. There is no evidence of a general increase in the actual productivity of crops nor the reverse, as one would hesitate to attribute the declining average yields of recent years to any cause other than the weather and to some extent, war conditions. In the case of wheat, beans and mangolds, notwith- standing the decline in recent years, the general level is still well above that of the early years, a condition which does not, however, apply to other crops, particularly barley. Table 5 in the Appendix gives the average yield per acre of the principal crops in ten-year periods since 1885. 2. Crop yields and extent of cultivation.—In the case of the more important crops information as to acreage and total produc- bion is, as already explained, collected annually and the results are published in the Annual Agricultural Statistics. It is not, therefore, proposed in this Report to discuss in any great detail the changes that have occurred in those crops, except to draw attention to some points of general interest. In the case of certain other crops, however, it is possible to give additional information obtained in 1925. Table 3 in the Appendix gives the acreage under the principal farm crops in England and Wales In five-year periods from 1871-75 to 1921-25, and Tables 4 and 5 the average production and average yield per acre in 10-year Periods, 1886-95 to 1916-25, together with the figures for 1925 in each cage. (a) Corn Crops. The two factors contributing to the total production of cereal Crops (as indeed of all crops) are the total acreage and the average yield per acre. The former, while differing comparatively slightly I Successive years, is yet subject to great changes over an extended period. On the other hand, the yield per acre shows substantial fluctuations in individual years, but over extended periods the Averages show less dissimilarity. Neither factor can be said to be the only consideration, but the annual fluctuations in total Production are caused chiefly (although not entirely ) by changes WN yield per acre for which the weather is mainly responsible ; while the changes in the average total production over a period of 5 or 10 years are due mainly to alterations in acreage, although the average yield per acre is also a factor, the importance of which varies according to the length of the periods upon which the comparison ig based.

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