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About Farming Sector

British farm animal breeds — sheep, cattle, pigs, horses, poultry and goats — and a century of crop areas in England, from the Defra June Survey.

Farming Sector brings together two kinds of open data. The breed register lists farm animal breeds that originated in England, Scotland, Wales or the UK as a whole, as recorded in Wikidata: species, nation of origin, what the breed is kept for, and a photograph from Wikimedia Commons with its author and licence.

The crops section follows the Defra June Survey key results for England at ten-year intervals: hectares under wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, potatoes, sugar beet, orchards, grass and rough grazing from 1900 to 2021. Figures are as published; a few obviously mis-scaled values in the source file are left out.

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Questions, corrections or data requests: [email protected].