RBR - Rural Business Research
Farm Business Survey - FBS reports (links page)

This is a links page for access to results from the Farm Business Survey. To go to data, click a category of reports from title links (below).

FBS GOR Reports  Government office region reports

The FBS Government Office Region Reports are a fully indexed system of reports on the financial and physical performance of farm businesses within each Government Office Region of England. Individual report pages include profitability of farm businesses, assets and liabilities as well as cropping and stocking. Report commentaries provide context to the report tables.

FBS benchmarking  FBS farm business benchmarking

Benchmarking has been revised and 2006/07 results are now available. This benchmarking system allows you to compare the financial performance of your business to the performance of average and top performing farms of the same farm type. This system allows comparison of your profit and loss account, gross margins, balance sheet and performance measures.

FBS data builder  FBS data builder

FBS data builder is a specialist interactive tool for professionals and researchers. FBS data builder allows direct interrogation of FBS data to construct user defined tables.

FBS enterprise reports

Further information about the economics of crop and livestock production are available in a series of enterprise reports prepared by researchers at the universities within the Rural Business Research units. Current reports review the performance of arable, horticulture, dairy, pig and poultry enterprises.

About the Farm Business Survey

The Farm Business Survey provides information on the physical and economic performance of farm businesses in England, to inform policy decisions on matters affecting farm businesses. It is intended to serve the needs of government, government partners, farming and land management interest groups, and researchers.

DEFRA The Farm Business Survey (called the Farm Accounts Survey in Scotland) is an annual survey commissioned by the government under which a range of management accounting information on all aspects of farmer's and grower's businesses is collected. The survey uses a sample of farms that is representative of the national population of farms in terms of farm type, farm size and regional location. Click the Defra logo for more information.

The Rural Business Unit, University of Cambridge maintains and publishes this series of reports.

Rural Business Research is a consortium of six leading academic units delivering projects for government, levy-funded research bodies, research councils and commercial clients.

The Farm Business Survey is conducted on behalf of, and financed by, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the data collected in it are Crown Copyright.

Askham Bryan College University of Cambridge Duchy College University of Newcastle Upon Tyne The University of Nottingham University of Reading
Region reports ¦ Farm benchmarking ¦ Data builder
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