Use of soil nutrient software on English farms by performance 2021

In 2020/21, approximately 43 percent of responding farming businesses with a high economic performance (top 25% of businesses) in England stated that they used soil nutrient software to help determine fertilizer applications. Compared to 2017/18 the share of respondents who said they use such software grew by seven percent. The smallest share of respondents who said they use these software packages could be found among farm businesses with low economic performance.

Share of farm businesses using soil nutrient software packages to help determine fertilizer applications in England from 2017/18 to 2020/21, by Economic performance

Farm economic perfromance band	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
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Release date

May 2022

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2017/2018 to 2020/2021

Number of respondents

1661*

Special properties

Farming businesses

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

* Numbers for 2020, for prior years the number of respondents are as follows:

2017/18 - 1766
2018/19 - 1768
2019/20 - 1664

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: "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."

Additionally:"

Farm Economic performance
Economic performance for each farm is measured as the ratio between economic output (mainly sales revenue) and inputs (costs). The inputs for this calculation include an adjustment for unpaid manual labor. The higher the ratio, the higher the economic efficiency and performance. The farms are then ranked and allocated to performance bands based on economic performance percentiles:

Low performance band - farms who took part in the fertilizer survey and were in the bottom 25% of economic performers
Medium performance band - farms who took part in the fertilizer survey and were in the middle 50% of performers
High performance band - farms who took part in the fertilizer survey and were in the top 25% of performers"