Collection: Food, Farming and Bio-security statistics
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 partners within Defra group
Our Products
Food statistics
- family food statistics
- food chain analysis
- food statistics pocketbook
- food transport indicators
- overseas trade
- sustainable food system indicators
Farming statistics
Farming
Farm management statistics
- aggregate agricultural accounts
- farm business survey
- agricultural productivity and competitiveness analyses
- productivity of the agricultural industry
Commodities and farm-gate prices
- agricultural price indices
- animal feed production
- cattle, sheep and pig slaughter
- cereal usage and stocks
- commodity prices
- egg production and prices
- fruit and vegetable wholesale prices
- milk utilisation by dairies
- milk prices and composition
- poultry and poultry meat statistics
Land management and environmental issues
- agricultural statistics and climate change
- agri-environment indicators
- agri-environment analysis
- farm practices survey
- fertiliser usage
- land under environmental management
Land use and livestock
- farm animal genetic resources
- horticultural statistics
- non-food crops
- orchard fruit
- organic farming
- structure of the agricultural industry
Bio-security statistics
Our partners within Defra group
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Rural Payments Agency (RPA)
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)
Other sources of information
- Welsh government
- Scottish government
- Northern Ireland
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
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. As for the Defra Group portfolio as a whole, we will continue to invest in developing our understanding of user needs and therefore to find the best future balance between compendiums of statistics, regular statistical releases on specific topic and supporting data releases.
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.