Table 3 Mean and (standard deviation) are reported for continuous variables, whilst the percentage of respondents in a category are reported for categorical variables.

Variable	Rees et al.¹ (Data Presented)	Möhring et al.⁴⁹	Späti et al.⁴⁸	Kreft et al.⁵⁰
Share Rented (%)	37.50 (28.67)	34.94 (28.87)
Labour Units (full time equivalents)	2.36 (4.40)	1.68 (1.18)	1.86 (2.14)
Manager Age (years)	47.54 (10.28)	47.08 (9.37)	46.50 (10.37)	49.03 (10.13)
Female (% Yes)	5.06			6.9
French Speaking (% Yes)	22.62	21.9		24.34
Valley Zone (% Yes)	79.18		76.56
Organic (% Yes)	16.14*		12.92	25.35
Integrated Production (% Yes)	47.90*	100		40.65*
Reduced Tillage Scheme Enrollment (% Yes)	58.14	59.19 ^☨		47.68
Final Number of Usable Responses (No.)	2,728	1,105	418	797
Response Rate (Usable % of asked)	18.16	23.27	8.74

A table of descriptive statistics from the here presented dataset versus the three contemporary survey datasets that focused on arable farming in Switzerland. Namely those of Möhring et al. (2022), conducted in 2019, Späti et al.⁴⁸ conducted in 2021 and Kreft et al.⁵⁰, conducted in 2024. These descriptive statistics are also shown alongside general statistics of the entire agricultural sector - including all farm types - of Switzerland from the Federal Office of Statistics for the year 2023.
* Calculated on the basis of the subset of farms producing milling wheat due to the fact that integrated production farms register per crop and not for the whole farm - i.e. they may produce some crops conventionally and others under the integrated production standard.
^☨ Note that the schemes were not exactly the same in 2019 when the data was collected by Möhring et al. (2022) compared to when we collected our data in 2023/24. The soil cover scheme was not recorded, and the reduced tillage scheme was split into two parts - direct seeding and mulch seeding. We report the percentage of farms from Möhring et al. (2022) who were enrolled in mulch seeding and/or direct drilling.

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