Farm accounts in England data sets
Datasets for the 'Farm accounts in England' publication.
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Datasets for Farm accounts in England
Previously, the supporting data for the Farm Accounts in England publication were published in a single file. Due to the size of this file, users reported difficulties opening it. Therefore, the file has now been split out by topic into eight smaller ODS files. For users who wish to use data analysis software to explore the data, we have also included the data in machine-readable CSV format; the ‘Mapping between Farm Accounts in England ods files and csv files’ file shows where each data table can be found.
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.
For any questions, please contact fbs.queries@defra.gov.uk.
Last updated 22 December 2023 + show all updates
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Update ODS & CSV file names and update 'Mapping between FAE ods and csv files' file.
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