What is the Farm Business Survey?

The Farm Business Survey provides information on the physical and economic performance of farm businesses in England and Wales, to inform policy decisions on matters affecting farm businesses. It is intended to serve the needs of government, government partners, farming and land management interest groups, and researchers.

The Farm Business Survey is an annual survey commissioned by the government under which a range of management accounting information on all aspects of farmer's and grower's businesses is collected. The survey uses a sample of farms that is representative of the national population of farms in terms of farm type, farm size and regional location.

How many farms are involved?

Over 2,300 farm businesses in England and Wales take part in the FBS survey each year.

Are the results confidential?

Yes. Details of individual farms are not published. Participating farms are not identifiable (by name or place). Our independence from government and commercial organisations ensures that their identity is never released to anyone outside of their regional RBR unit. Minimum sample sizes prevent extraction of individual farm data.

Who is behind the Farm Business Survey?

Rural Business Research - the FBS academic consortium - of six University Research Centres carries out the Farm Business Survey in England. Click the logos for more information.

In Wales, the Farm Business Survey is undertaken by Aberystwyth University on behalf of, and financed by, the Welsh Assembly Government.

These reports include data collected in the Farm Business Survey. In England the Farm Business Survey is conducted on behalf of, and financed by, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the data collected in it are Crown Copyright. You may re-use this information free of charge under the terms of the Open Government Licence v.3.

The Rural Business Unit, University of Cambridge maintains and publishes FBS Farm Business Benchmarking.

www.farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk is assembled, maintained, and published by:

• RBR (Rural Business Research - "the FBS academic consortium") at Cambridge
  Rural Business Unit
  University of Cambridge
  19 Silver Street
  CB3 9EP, UK
  
  Telephone: 01223 337 147
  Email: vt291@cam.ac.uk

For User Queries, Improvements, or Suggestions
please contact in the first instance:

• Mark Reader or Stephen Horsley
  Rural Business Unit
  University of Cambridge
  19 Silver St
  Cambridge
  CB3 9EP
  United Kingdom
  
  Email: mar58@cam.ac.uk
  Telephone: +(0)1223 337 163
  
  Email: smh68@cam.ac.uk
  Telephone: +(0)1223 337 159
  

Most Recent Developments: Feb-2020 BPS cuts for 2021 put into 'Projected Farm Accounts' - projections of BPS payment in 2021 (under 'Profitability/projections') Jan-2020 Published Internet Reports for 2018/19 - most recent results Nov-2019 Links from output/cost headings corrected - links to 'Definitions' (glossary) now work for account outputs and costs. Sep-2019 Restored "Calc Mach Depreciation" - calculate Machinery Depreciation using FBS. FADN bug fixed. Sep-2019 Added 'Pigs finishers - rearing' to FBS Projector - based on Lean Hogs and USD (of CME) - of interest to more farmers Jan-2019 Published Internet Reports for 2017/18 - most recent results Jan-2019 ... with 'Adjusted Hectares' in Profitability - more relevant results for uplands, hill-farming and the LFA's Jan-2019 Fixed error in GMs denominator 'decimal-places' - spring barley figures no longer include rounding errors Jan-2019 Re-Launched simple home-page - easier to find other data (especially workshops, regional and projections) Jul-2018 Fixed additions / projections - fixed projections (wrongly shown for Milk CoP and FixedCosts), and incorrect summing in Milk benchmarking Mar-2018 Fixed bug in menus - there had been a bug (inconsistency) in the menu's of two pages Jan-2018 Launched simplified user interface - easier to find important comparisons (especially for benchmarking and projections) 2016 to .. Development and beta-testing of SIP-benchmarking - Sustainable Intensification Benchmarking

Privacy policy: farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk

The information you enter will not be recorded by the system and as such will not be divulged or used for any other purpose than that of providing you, the user, with comparative analysis.

To facilitate comparisons, data you enter are stored in 'session-cookies' on your computer while you visit this site. Hence, to maintain privacy, you should close your web-browser before letting someone else use your computer in the same session.

In accordance with the EU e-Privacy Directive we advise you that we do not store any persistent cookies on your equipment. Non-persistent session cookies are however used, as they are strictly necessary for the functionality of the website when you explicitly request data.

Further, you may be interested to know, that all sessions are logged for analysis of site usage (excluding user data).

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IF YOU CHOOSE TO GIVE US AN EMAIL ADDRESS: PRIVACY NOTICE (GDPR)

You can give us an email address, which might identify you and/or your organisation, when you sign up to receive FBS updates from Rural Business Research. You can find details on how we handle personal information here, at http://www.farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk/about/Default.aspx#PrivacyPolicy (and at https://BenchmarkMyFarm.co.uk/About.aspx#PrivacyNotice) . The data we hold about you for this purpose is very limited (your email address, topic interest, and profess-ion only).

The information you provide will be used to process sending you FBS updates. We may also contact you regarding farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk and your participation. And also, (in extremely rare circumstances), contact you to undertake evaluation or in further development of farm improvement services. Or, (in exceptional circumstances only), to provide you with marketing information about web-content, events and services offered through the Rural Business Research (RBR/ The FBS Consortium/ Farm Business Survey), which may be of interest to you in your professional capacity. All marketing communications will incorporate an option to opt-out of receiving further communications.

Please note that we are managing this service through Microsoft (.Net/VB/aspx/SQL) with authentication and spam filtering via Google-Forms. Microsoft and Google are third-party services that are not owned or managed by the Rural Business Unit, University of Cambridge. You may wish to review Microsoft’s and Google’s terms and conditions and privacy policy as we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or for their security implementation.

For further information please see the University of Cambridge page at https://www.information-compliance.admin.cam.ac.uk/data-protection/general-data titled: "How we use your personal information (general)".