The work of the food and farming statistics team covers a wide range of topics including financial management of farms, production and prices of commodities, household food purchasing, how land is managed and the environmental impacts of farming, and the structure of the farming industry in terms of land usage and livestock numbers. Key publications in these areas include:

Farm management

• Agriculture in the United Kingdom
• Latest UK agricultural accounts
• Farm Business Survey
• Latest farm business incomes

Food, commodities and prices

• Family food
• Food Statistics Pocketbook
• Commodities
• Prices

Land management and environment

• Latest Observatory research
• Indicators
• Farm practices survey

Land use and livestock

• Latest June Survey results
• Detailed June Survey results and datasets 
• Bovine TB in Great Britain

What’s new

• 3rd April 2012 – Bovine TB in Great Britain (Publication has been resumed, statistics to the end of December 2011 are now available)
• 30th March 2012 – British Survey of Fertiliser Practice 2011
• 16th February 2012 – Food Statistics Pocketbook 2011 (in year update)
• 31st January 2012 – Agriculture in the English Regions 2010

You can keep in touch with the latest economic research and statistical information on food and farming through our monthly brief.

We welcome your feedback: email esdinternet@defra.gsi.gov.uk