{ "culture": "en-GB", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "The classification of land for agricultural purposes in Scotland is, in the general sense, as old as farming itself but the first national surveys were the Land Utilisation Survey directed by Sir Dudley Stamp during the late thirties and the classification of arable land carried out by the staff of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland in the forties. Both, however, were based largely on observation of the land use then current. In the mid-sixties interpretations of soil survey maps, laying more stress on the properties of land and its potential for agriculture, were developed at the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Aberdeen. A standard system of Land Use Capability Classification, applied by the Soil Surveys of Scotland, and of England and Wales was published in 1969 (Bibby and Mackney). In 1973 following a recommendation in the White Paper 'Land Resource Use in Scotland: The Government's Observations on the Report of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs', a Standing Committee on Rural Land Use was established. One of the first subjects considered by the Committee was land use capability classification and the decision was reached that a published land classification was desirable and that a review should be carried out to establish the one most suitable to Scottish requirements. The Chief Agricultural Officer of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr C. Mackay, was appointed chairman of a working party and in subsequent reports (1975 and 1977) it was concluded that the future direction of land classification and mapping in Scotland should be based on the system developed by the Macaulay Institute with some modifications and additions. The reports, which were accepted by the Standing Committee, encouraged continued co-operation with England and Wales through the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service Closed Conference of Advisory Soil Scientists Land Capability Classification Working Party. This had been established in 1974 and included representatives of the...", "description": "

This is a hybrid version of the Land Capability for Agriculture. It includes all of the data that was mapped at 1:50,000 and only uses the 1:250,000 data for the remaining areas, these are primarily upland parts of Scotland. Please visit our LCA webpage at https://www.hutton.ac.uk/learning/natural-resource-datasets/landcover/land-capability-agriculture for more information.<\/SPAN><\/P>

In the map on this page you can see the scale of the mapping as a label with the text either \"50K\" or \"250K\"<\/SPAN><\/P>

The data is © James Hutton Institute 2023.<\/SPAN><\/P>

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