A quick glance at that link suggests that in your typed response above you are confusing acres and hectares.
I’ve no idea what you’ve checked or not checked.2.47 acres to a hectare. Do you really think I would have replied to @dsr-burnley's first post without checking
according to the internet an acre is 'roughly the same size as a football field'. So more like 50 football fields. Which doesn't seem way out to me.
Get off my land!
Are they the facts though?To be fair, I was a little surprised, but those are the facts
I don't think Watford zero understands polite queries about numbers. Now, if you swore violently and abusively, you'd be talking his language.
I think, having skimmed those, that the discrepancy might come from this link that you quoted (https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...-regional-profiles/agricultural-facts-summary) giving ~39% of farms being under 20ha (50acres) refering to England alone, while the other websites that state "about 50% of farms are under 50acres" refer to the whole UK.
That would makes more sense. Loads of crofts in Scotland that are little more than a few head of sheep and subsistence crops.
So 50% <50 acres in the UK is hard to believe, but 40% <50 acres in England makes sense?
It is interesting (aside from whatever argument this originally stemmed from, I skipped that bit of the thread and don't really care), that even in England over 10% of farms are under 5ha, so less than 12.3acres.
Well, no it doesn’t. I was just referring to the Scotland bit to be honest.
They're basically hobby farms, not commercial farms.
Fascinating.
