Food, Farming and Bio-security statistics
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
Working alongside our Defra group partner organisations: Animal and Plant Health Agency, Rural Payments Agency and Veterinary Medicines Directorate, we produce a wide range of statistics on the food we grow, sell and consume; farm productivity and management; farm commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals and the control of animal and plant diseases.
Our partners within Defra group
Our Products
Food statistics
- family food statistics
- food chain analysis
- food security report: United Kingdom
- food statistics pocketbook
- overseas trade in food, feed and drink
Farming compendiums
- agriculture in the United Kingdom
- agriculture facts in English regions
- farming statistics evidence packs
Structure of the agricultural industry
Farm Business
Farm accounts
Productivity in agriculture
- total factor productivity of the UK agricultural industry
- total factor productivity by English farm type
Farming practices and opinions
Prices
- agricultural price indices
- animal feed prices
- banana prices
- cattle compensation prices
- egg prices - farmgate
- fruit and vegetable wholesale prices
- livestock prices, finished and store
- milk prices - farmgate
Crops
- animal feed production
- cereal stocks on-farm
- cereal usage
- crop areas, yield and production
- crops for non-food use
- horticulture
- organic crops
Livestock
- cattle, sheep and pig slaughter statistics
- egg production
- farm animal genetic resources
- livestock populations
- milk production and composition
- milk utilisation by dairies
- organic livestock
- poultry slaughter and hatchery statistics
Farming inputs
- animal feed production
- fertiliser usage (British Survey of Fertiliser Practice)
- fertiliser usage (Farm Business Survey)
Agri-environment
- agriculture and climate change
- agri-environment analysis
- crops for non-food use
- fertiliser usage (British Survey of Fertiliser Practice)
- fertiliser usage (Farm Business Survey)
- soil nutrient balances
Organic farming
Bio-security statistics
Our partners within Defra group
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Rural Payments Agency (RPA)
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)
Other sources of information
- Welsh government
- Scottish government
- Northern Ireland
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
Developing our portfolio
The food, farming and biosecurity portfolio of official statistics is large (over 50 different products) and well established – with many of our datasets having a long historical archive.
One key driver of the way that the portfolio will evolve will be the new policy context for this topic, for example as a result of the forthcoming Agriculture Act and, more broadly, as a consequence of exiting the EU, increased demand for statistics in areas such as food and food trade.
Updates to this page
Last updated 25 January 2024 + show all updates
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Added link to new Farming statistics evidence pack page.
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Cereal Stocks on farm link edited to take the user to the Crops Collection page were the statistics now sit.
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Removed “agri-environment indicators” from the collection page due to duplication.
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Changed link, Land Use link used to go to Structure of Agriculture collection now goes to Crops Collection. This does not affect the statistics published.
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Updated links for crop areas, yield and production and livestock population pages.
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Edited to include a link for the – Horticulture Business Survey.
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Restructure of content on this collection page to make it easier for user to find our statistics. Statistics are now grouped by commodity topics rather than themes.
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Add link to United Kingdom food security report
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Updated title under Land management and environmental issues from Agricultural statistics and climate change to Agriculture and climate change,folowing review of publications.
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Added Farmer Opinion Tracker to Land management and environmental issues list of collections.
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Replaced the future farming and evidence compendium link with a link to the farming and environment evidence packs.
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Amended "Developing our portfolio" text.
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Added link to plant health trade statistics under Bio-security statistics section
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Link to Scottish Government website corrected.
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Removed signpost to Office for Statistics Regulation User Engagement Survey as survey now closed.
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Amendment made to signpost Office for Statistics Regulation User Engagement Survey.
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Added a link to the future farming and environment evidence compendium collections page.
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First published.