The Blair era by numbers
THE BLAIR ERA BY NUMBERS | ||
1997 | 2007 | |
| No. of people employed in UK agriculture | 616,000 | 534,000* |
| Finished steers (p/kg lw) | 91 | 105 |
| Finished lambs (p/kg lw) | 145 | 101 |
| Finished pigs (p/kg dw) | 118 | 107 |
| Milk (p/l) | 24 | 18 |
| Feed wheat (£/t) | 95 | 96 |
| Milling wheat (£/t) | 105 | 101 |
| Potatoes | 50 | 176 |
| Oilseed rape | 170 | 167 |
| *estimated | ||
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