Land Capability for Agriculture, Scotland

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24 March 2022
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Summary

The Land Capability Classification for Agriculture has as its objective the presentation of detailed information on soil, climate and relief in a form which will be of value to land use planners, agricultural advisers, farmers and others involved in optimising the use of land resources. The classification ranks land on the basis of its potential productivity and cropping flexibility determined by the extent to which its physical characteristics (soil, climate and relief) impose long term restrictions on its agricultural use. THE CLASSES Class 1. Land capable of producing a very wide range of crops with high yields Class 2. Land capable of producing a wide range of crops with yields less high than Class 1. Class 3. Land capable of producing good yields from a moderate range of crops. Class 4. Land capable of producing a narrow range of crops. Class 5. Land suited only to improved grassland and rough grazing. Class 6. Land capable only of use as rough grazing. Class 7. Land of very limited agricultural value. THE DIVISIONS A division is a ranking within a class. As the requirements of the crops suited to Classes 1 and 2 are fairly stringent, land in these classes has inherently low degrees of internal variability and no divisions are present. The requirements of crops grown in the remaining classes are less rigorous, consequently land included is more variable in character.

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250K LCA WMS N/A 24 March 2022 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2022-03-23
Access contraints
no limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
24c6df5a-6b04-43f8-839f-0d45cc2802e3
Extent
Latitude: 60.866019° to 54.548773°
Longitude: -8.343553° to -0.705118°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
Dataset reference date
1981-01-01 (creation)
2016-08-01 (publication)
Frequency of update
irregular
Responsible party
The James Hutton Institute (custodian, processor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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This data was produced at a scale of 1:250,000. Larger scale data is available for the main agricultural areas of Scotland. Use is permitted under the terms of the Open Data licence included in the download.
The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence