1:50,000 Land Capability for Agriculture

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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(2014) . 1:50,000 Land Capability for Agriculture. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/cfa70edc-8884-433d-b1f3-3970f5b4b047

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Alternate title
Land capability for agriculture (partial cover)
Date ( Publication )
2014-04-01T00:00:00
Edition
1.0
Identifier
cfa70edc-8884-433d-b1f3-3970f5b4b047_resource
Purpose
To provide information on the agricultural land capability for the more intensively farmed areas of Scotland.
Status
completed Completed

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notPlanned Not planned
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ESRI Shapefile
Version
1.0
Keywords
  • agriculture
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Soil , Land use
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations on public access
Use limitation
Suitable for use at medium scales. Data of national coverage is available at 1:250,000 scale.
Use limitation
The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
50000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Geoscientific information
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Geographic identifier
GB-SCT
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
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  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

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ESRI Shapefile
Version
1.0
OnLine resource
ESRI Shapefile Download  

A zip of the Esri shapefile, including licence and Esri layer files.

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50K LCA WMS  

1:50,000 Land Capability for Agriculture

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Dataset
Shapefile
Statement
Digitised from the paper maps published in the 1980's. Please refer to the information for the 1:250,000 LCA for further details.

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File identifier
cfa70edc-8884-433d-b1f3-3970f5b4b047   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-02-08
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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