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Farm Accounts in England

Annual Farm Accounts in England sourced from the Farm Business Survey.

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From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
7 December 2015
Last updated:
12 May 2026
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  1. Updated details with full FBS details.

  2. Updated with 2024/25 report.

  3. Fixing a problem with the error bars in chart 2.1.

  4. Added Farm Accounts in England 2023/24 report.

  5. Update three charts for formatting purposes (1-1, 1-3, 4-2),

  6. Update to correct for typos and grammar.

  7. Update HTML chapter links at the bottom of the pages.

  8. Update required as HTML chapter links weren't working as expected.

  9. Annual update for FAE - with data for 2022/23.

  10. Added Farm Accounts in England 2021/22.

  11. To update the Farm Accounts to England 2020/21.

  12. Dataset edited to include additional tables.

  13. Added latest statistical notice and dataset, 2019/20 figures.

  14. Table 7.1: Cereal Farms: Cropping, Stocking and Labour by Performance Band, of the 2018/19 Farm Accounts dataset was updated on the 6th August 2020. Data previously showing in Table 7.1 was for all types of farms rather than cereal farms

  15. Added the final tables to the dataset file.

  16. Added latest statistical notice and datasets, 2018/19 figures.

  17. Statistical notice updated due to correct error in Figure 8. There are no other changes to the previously published figures

  18. Documents for this publication were incorrectly attached, i.e. previously, in error, pdf file was uploaded in place of dataset. Also replaced pdf document titled Farm Accounts in England - 2017/18 - report" with revised edition which corrects minor error in Table J (page 33 of the report) for “Number of Businesses at June Survey 2017”.

  19. Values in Table J (page 33 of the report) for “Number of Businesses at June Survey 2017” were updated on the 14th June 2019.

  20. Farm accounts in England 2017/18 published.

  21. Revisions to dataset; disaggregated 'Agri-environmental schemes' output result in Table 5 'Detailed Output and Input Costs'; revision to Tables 6.17 and 7.17 horticultural cropping results.

  22. Farm accounts in England 2016/17 published.

  23. Updated dataset with additional SDA and non SDA results (tables 5.19 to 5.22); and additional LFA and lowland suckler cow enterprise results in table 14.1.

  24. Farm Accounts in England 2015/16 published.

  25. Farm Accounts in England 2014/15 published

  26. First published.

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Documents

Preface

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Chapter 1: Key Events

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Chapter 2: Key Results and Overview Across England

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Chapter 3: Cropping Farms

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Chapter 4: Livestock Farms

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Chapter 5: Diversification

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Survey Details and Technical Notes

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Details

Farm Accounts in England is the primary publication from the Farm Business Survey (FBS). It provides information on farm incomes, outputs and costs for the various farm types, farm sizes, regions and economic performance groups along with enterprise level gross margins, balance sheet data and flow of fund statements.

This publication has been prepared by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) from the results of the Farm Business Survey (FBS) in England from a sample of farms. Results are weighted to represent the full population of farm businesses that have at least 25,000 Euros of Standard Output as recorded in the annual June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture.

To ensure consistency in harvest/crop year and commonality of subsidies within any one FBS year, only farms which have accounting years ending between 31 December and 30 April inclusive are allowed into the survey. Aggregate results are presented in terms of an accounting year ending at end-February, the approximate average of all farms in the FBS. Thus the results relate, on average, to March - February years.

Farm accounts in England datasets

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