1 / 21

Brief Overview of Key Crop Supply Cains

Brief Overview of Key Crop Supply Cains. Alan Renwick. Crops through the supply chain. Key Crops in Scotland Wheat Barley Potatoes Soft Fruit. Crop Production – Areas of Key crops. Source June Census. Distribution of Barley Production and Malting Sites. Destination of Wheat.

zizi
Download Presentation

Brief Overview of Key Crop Supply Cains

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Brief Overview of Key Crop Supply Cains Alan Renwick

  2. Crops through the supply chain • Key Crops in Scotland • Wheat • Barley • Potatoes • Soft Fruit

  3. Crop Production – Areas of Key crops Source June Census

  4. Distribution of Barley Production and Malting Sites

  5. Destination of Wheat Quantity and Quality Limited by climate and soil Vast majority into Distilling Import most of ¼m tonnes for milling Much Scope to change? Importance of Whisky sector – impact of economic downturn Source: DTZ

  6. Destination of Barley Source: DTZ Feed Use, Malting, Exporter of feed, limited scope for malt exports importance of livestock sector - Source: DTZ

  7. Destination of OSR Source: DTZ No crushing facilities within Scotland. All exported – discussion About local facilities but mainly to do with bio-diesel – food vs fuel

  8. Growth in Demand (Malt)

  9. Potatoes 20% of UK area, Approx 5 main packers in Scotland, 45% of area is seed – Scotland as Input provider,

  10. Vegetables

  11. Opportunities?

  12. Additional Slides highlight some notes from DTZ report on sectors

  13. Vegetables • One single pre-packer dominates the sector, but there are a limited number of other processing facilities. The sector is efficient and well integrated.

  14. Potatoes • There are five strong pre-packers in Scotland and fresh product is significant. However there is a lack of processing facilities making volume potato products, and this activity tends to be carried out in England. The investment needed to set up such facilities is considerable and unlikely to be viable in Scotland, unless on a small scale to niche markets.

  15. Wheat • The Scottish climate is not well suited to growing wheat, however new varieties are creating opportunities for Scottish growers. The return on wheat production is higher than other food crops, suggesting production will continue to grow. Around half of Scotland's wheat crop goes to distilleries. The remainder is milled in Scotland (with imported grain due to insufficient quality and supply). Poorer quality output is used in animal feed. Global warming may bring opportunities for more milling wheat to be grown in Scotland.

  16. Strawberries - over the last 5 years, the area grown has remained constant, but yields and production have varied, together with prices. Around 80% of Scottish strawberries are bought by the multiples for sale as fresh fruit. Growing in polytunnels has extended the season and improved quality. Eastern European workers have provided a ready supply of labour for picking.

  17. The raspberry acreage in Scotland has declined in recent years but Berry Scotland anticipate an increased market for fresh raspberries to reverse this trend in the coming years. Recent years have also seen increasing Class 1 fresh sales to supermarkets at the expense of Class 2, which has traditionally gone towards jam processing. The drop in Class 2 availability threatens jam processors who wish to brand their product as Scottish. With strong price competition from imported varieties, Scottish production is increasingly focused towards the fresh market.

  18. Virtually the entire Scottish blackcurrant crop (95%) is grown on contract for GSK to be used for the production of Ribena. Ribena is produced in England. The remaining 5% of Scottish blackcurrants stay in Scotland for pulping and jam production.

  19. Barley • Due to improving returns on production of wheat and biofuel crops, the acreage devoted to barley growth has declined. Most of the Scottish crop is sold to feed compounders outside Scotland with much of the remainder being used for malting, either in Scotland or just over the border.

  20. http://www.sac.ac.uk/ruralpolicycentre/

More Related