Accredited official statistics

Machinery investment on farms in England

Machinery investment on farms in England statistics sourced from the Farm Business Survey.

Applies to England

Documents

Machinery investment on farms in England: 2014/15 to 2023/24 - dataset (Machine Readable Version)

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This release provides estimates of machinery investment made by farmers in England. The results are sourced from the Farm Business Survey and cover a broad range of expenditure from office and irrigation equipment to tractors and combine harvesters.

Defra statistics: Farm Business Survey

You can also contact us via X: https://x.com/DefraStats

Updates to this page

Published 20 December 2018
Last updated 1 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Dataset and commentary updated for 2023/24.

  2. Machinery investment on farms in England dataset updated for 2022/23.

  3. Updated to reflect amended machinery definitions. There are no changes to the previously published figure.

  4. First published.

Sign up for emails or print this page