In 2019/20, approximately 22 percent of responding dairy farming businesses in England stated that they used precision farming techniques. Compared to 2017/18 this constitutes an increase of three percent. Grazing livestock, pig & poultry and horticulture businesses had the joint lowest share of precision farming technique use at six percent of responding farms. For a breakdown of technologies used on English farming holdings click here.
Share of farm businesses using precision farming techniques in England 2017/18 to 2019/20, by farm type
* Numbers for 2019, for prior years the number of respondents are as follows:
2017/18 - 1766
2018/19 - 1768
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 Type
Where reference is made to the type of farm, this refers to the ‘robust type’, which is a standardised farm classification system."
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