In 2021/22, approximately 25 percent of responding farming businesses with a medium economic performance stated that they used precision farming techniques. Compared to 2017/18 the share of respondents who said they use such techniques increased by two percent. 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 2021/22, by economic performance of the farm
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 the source notes: '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 the source notes:'
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 labour. 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:
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