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Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2025

Annual statistics about agriculture in the United Kingdom.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 9 July 2026
• Last updated: 3 September 2026 — See all updates

Documents

Preface

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Summary

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Chapter 1: Key events

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Chapter 2: Structure of industry

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Chapter 3: Farming income

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Chapter 4: Accounts

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Chapter 5: Productivity

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Chapter 6: Prices

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Chapter 7: Crops

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Chapter 8: Livestock

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Chapter 9: Intermediate consumption

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Chapter 10: Agricultural support payments

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Chapter 11: Agri-environment

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Chapter 12: Organics

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Chapter 13: Overseas trade

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Chapter 14: The food chain

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Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2025

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This annual publication provides an overview of agriculture in the UK. It contains an extensive range of data including farm incomes, land use, livestock numbers, prices, production of key commodities (eg wheat, milk, vegetables), overseas trade, organic farming and the environment. The information is used widely by government, industry, researchers and other stakeholders to support policy monitoring and development.

Agriculture in the United Kingdom datasets.

Next update: see the statistics release calendar

Published 9 July 2026

Last updated 3 September 2026 — Show all updates

1. 3 September 2026

   Poultry data in Chapter 8 was revised due to post-publication corrections to the underlying turkeys, ducks and geese slaughter and production data, and a correction to all poultry value calculations.

2. 29 July 2026

   Added the PDF version of AUK 2025.

3. 10 July 2026

   Correct error in chapter 8 for the value of milk.

4. 9 July 2026

   Minor update to table 14.1d.

5. 9 July 2026

   First published.