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• What was the plan?• How did we do?• What extra work appeared?• What’s the future for agriculture

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Ag. Statistics plan: 2013-14 to 2015-16. Meet compliance and…

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?• Cattle Tracing Scheme• SAPM & GHG• New typology• Referendum (2014)• Data Vis. + Twitter

@SGRESAS• Land Reform/Ag Holdings• Cereal estimates• SGAI & DAS & online

(Brian Pack)• New FBI, EGM + contract• FSS 2013 & 2016• Reduced data burden

• Business level stats• FAS review

• Net margins• Electronic data capture

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• Budget pressures, fewer people – FTE now 14 (was ~17).• Brought some surveys in-house (fruit, seed potatoes, slaughter).• TIFF – overhaul of processes and data• Cereal Production Survey – in-house for 2015

• New Organic Farming in Scotland publication• Land reform – surveys, data collection and analysis• Weather Aid analysis in 2013• Added cattle breed to June census 2015• Data sharing (FBI/JHI) and RPID/RESAS overarching.

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• UK referendum on EU membership (23/6/16)• UK has Presidency of European Council in 2017

- Agriculture statistics framework regulations• FSS 2016, FSS 2020(?) and new Standard Outputs• Eurostat’s Annual Work Plan – 2020

• New - Areas of Natural Constraint• Additional Land Reform work• New - Topic papers covering agriculture, supply chain and food & drink.

• Electronic data capture. AGS and RPS integration.• New - Open data & data science, including software testing for ‘R’• GSS – desire to get data “out there” much quicker; presents challenges

• Will budgets be squeezed again…?• Will need to collaborate more across various projects

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Each table please take 10 minutes to discuss.

Please feedback one or two key points or thoughts.

Papers are on the table but you don’t need to stick to what’s on the list!

Thanks.