Food, Farming and Bio-security statistics
Source: gov.uk (2025-06-20)

Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.

Working alongside our Defra group partner organisations: Animal and Plant Health Agency, Rural Payments Agency and Veterinary Medicines Directorate, we produce a wide range of statistics on the food we grow, sell and consume; farm productivity and management; farm commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals and the control of animal and plant diseases.

Our products (#our-products)

Our partners within Defra group (#our-partners)

Other sources of information (#other-sources)

Developing our portfolio (#developing-portfolio)

Our Products

Food statistics
- family food statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-food-statistics)
- food chain analysis (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/food-chain-productivity)
- food security report: United Kingdom (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/united-kingdom-food-security-report)
- food statistics pocketbook (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/food-statistics-pocketbook)
- total factor productivity of the food chain (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/total-factor-productivity-of-the-food-chain)
- overseas trade in food, feed and drink (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/overseas-trade)
Farming compendiums
- agriculture in the United Kingdom (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agriculture-in-the-united-kingdom)
- agriculture facts in English regions (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agriculture-in-england-regional-profiles)
- farming statistics evidence packs (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farming-statistics-evidence-packs)
Structure of the agricultural industry
- agricultural labour (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agricultural-workforce)
- land use (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crops)
Farm Business
- farm business survey (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farm-business-survey)
- horticulture business survey (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/horticulture-business-survey)
Farm accounts
- total income from farming (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/aggregate-agricultural-accounts)
Productivity in agriculture
- total factor productivity of the UK agricultural industry (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/productivity-of-the-agricultural-industry)
- total factor productivity by English farm type (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farm-business-survey#total-factor-productivity-for-england-by-farm-type)
Farming practices and opinions
- farmer opinion tracker (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farmer-opinion-tracker)
- farm practices survey (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farm-practices-survey)
Prices
- agricultural price indices (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agricultural-price-indices)
- animal feed prices (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/commodity-prices#price-datasets)
- banana prices (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/commodity-prices#price-datasets)
- cattle compensation prices (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-historical-compensation-value-tables)
- egg prices - farmgate (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/egg-production-and-prices)
- fruit and vegetable wholesale prices (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/commodity-prices#price-datasets)
- livestock prices, finished and store (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/commodity-prices#price-datasets)
- milk prices - farmgate (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/milk-prices-and-composition)
Crops
- animal feed production (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-feed-production)
- cereal stocks on-farm (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crops)
- cereal usage (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cereal-usage-and-stocks)
- crop areas, yield and production (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crops)
- crops for non-food use (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/non-food-crops)
- horticulture (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/horticultural-statistics)
- organic crops (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/organic-farming)
Livestock
- cattle, sheep and pig slaughter statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cattle-sheep-and-pig-slaughter)
- egg production (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/egg-production-and-prices)
- farm animal genetic resources (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fangr-resources-for-farmers-and-livestock-breeders)
- livestock populations (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/livestock-populations)
- milk production and composition (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/milk-prices-and-composition)
- milk utilisation by dairies (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/milk-utilisation-by-dairies)
- organic livestock (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/organic-farming)
- poultry slaughter and hatchery statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/poultry-and-poultry-meat-statistics)
Farming inputs
- animal feed production (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-feed-production)
- fertiliser usage (British Survey of Fertiliser Practice) (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fertiliser-usage)
- fertiliser usage (Farm Business Survey) (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farm-business-survey#fertiliser-usage-on-farms)
Agri-environment
- agriculture and climate change (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agricultural-statistics-and-climate-change)
- agri-environment analysis (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/agri-environment-analysis)
- crops for non-food use (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/non-food-crops)
- fertiliser usage (British Survey of Fertiliser Practice) (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fertiliser-usage)
- fertiliser usage (Farm Business Survey) (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farm-business-survey#fertiliser-usage-on-farms)
- soil nutrient balances (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/soil-nutrient-balances)
Organic farming
- organic farming (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/organic-farming)
Bio-security statistics
- animal on-farm welfare inspections (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-on-farm-welfare-inspections)
- bovine TB (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb)
- plant health trade analysis (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/plant-health-international-trade-and-controlled-consignments)
Our partners within Defra group
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=animal-and-plant-health-agency)
- Rural Payments Agency (RPA) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=rural-payments-agency)
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=veterinary-medicines-directorate)
Other sources of information
- Welsh government (https://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/?subtopic=Farming&lang=en)
- Scottish government (https://www.gov.scot/statistics-and-research/?cat=filter&topics=Farming%20and%20rural)
- Northern Ireland (https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/agriculture-and-environment)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) (https://www.ons.gov.uk/atoz)
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) (https://ahdb.org.uk/markets-and-prices)
Developing our portfolio

The food, farming and biosecurity portfolio of official statistics is large (over 50 different products) and well established – with many of our datasets having a long historical archive.

One key driver of the way that the portfolio will evolve will be the new policy context for this topic, for example as a result of the forthcoming Agriculture Act and, more broadly, as a consequence of exiting the EU, increased demand for statistics in areas such as food and food trade.