Agriculture facts and figures: 2017

An electronic copy of the pocket-sized leaflet providing a range of agriculture statistics.


Farm business income and direct subsidies per farm by type of farming, 2014-15 and 2015-16

  2014-15 2015-16
Farm Type Farm Business Income Subsidy & Payments Subsidy & Payments as a ratio of Output Subsidy & Payments as a ratio of FBI Farm Business Income Subsidy & Payments Subsidy & Payments as a ratio of Output Subsidy & Payments as a ratio of FBI
£/farm £/farm £/farm £/farm
Cereals 18,508 33,691 0.17 1.82 7,444 29,132 0.15 3.91
General cropping 26,987 32,290 0.14 1.20 24,086 30,496 0.13 1.27
Dairy 68,932 36,373 0.07 0.53 1,884 30,854 0.08 16.38
LFA sheep 14,827 34,040 0.38 2.30 7,362 36,001 0.44 4.89
LFA beef 25,013 47,109 0.27 1.88 22,482 45,636 0.27 2.03
LFA mixed cattle & sheep 27,547 53,256 0.32 1.93 20,893 49,949 0.32 2.39
Lowland cattle & sheep 26,740 36,864 0.22 1.38 12,302 32,392 0.20 2.63
Mixed 11,918 39,365 0.19 3.30 2,264 35,351 0.18 15.61
All 23,944 40,172 0.21 1.68 12,615 38,092 0.22 3.02

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