Rural Business Research Farm Business Survey

www.farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk is assembled, maintained, and published by:


  • RBR at Cambridge,
    the Rural Business Unit,
    University of Cambridge,
    19 Silver Street
    Cambridge, CB3 9EP
    United Kingdom

    Telephone: +(0)1223 337 166
    Facsimile: +(0)1223 765 857
Rural Business Research (RBR), a consortium of six University Research Centres,
carries out the Farm Business Survey in England for DEFRA.  See icon links (below).

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Most Recent Developments:


  • Feb-2012 FBS worshops
    - favourable reports by participants
    - more outreach next year (esp. farmer/adv. groups)
  • Jun-2012 FBS projection calculator launched
    - with favourable press comments
  • Jul-2012 Commissioned new hardware server
    - better performance, particularly in FBS data builder
  • Dec-2012 2011/12 data posted on FBS data builder
    - most recent results
  • Jan-2013 Implemented revised rule of 10 farm 'minimum-sample'
    - more data available from FBS data builder
  • Jan-2013 Published Internet Reports for 2011/12
    - most recent data available
  • Apr-2013 New calculation module published for FBS data builder
    - giver faster results
Cattle-eating Poulty-standing

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

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