Share of farm businesses using precision farming techniques in England 2012-2021

* Numbers for 2019, for prior years the number of respondents are as follows:

2012/13 - 975
2013/14 - 968
2015/16 - 1329
2016/17 - 1421
2017/18(a) - 1762 - Typology based on 2010 standard output
2017/18(b) - 1766 - Typology based on 2013 output
2018/19 - 1768
2019/20 - 1664

** Increased data collection from horticulture farms and those with no farmed area.
*** Includes those that responded 'yes' and ‘some' from 2013/14 onwards.y
**** This includes farms which do not use any fertilizers and those that do not grow any arable crops.


The source notes: 'Results are weighted to represent the whole 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. In 2018/19, this accounted for approximately 57,100 farm businesses.'
Furthermore: 'It should be noted that results prior to 2015/16 were restricted to those farms with a farmed area and did not include horticulture farms. From 2018/19, the classification of farms is based on 2013 standard output coefficients. 2017/18 results have been recalculated and presented in this release to allow comparability between 2017/18 and 2018/19. Results for 2018/19 and recalculated 2017/18 results are not directly comparable with those published in earlier years which are based on previous standard output coefficients.'
This statistic using original data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0