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Farm practices survey February 2025

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · 2026

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Summary

This Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs statistical release presents a baseline survey of farming practice adoption across English farms in February 2025. The cross-sectional design establishes current prevalence of various practices to support temporal trend analysis and evidence-based agricultural policy, without inferring causal relationships with agronomic or environmental outcomes.

Regional applicability

This survey is conducted in England and directly informs United Kingdom agricultural policy and practice monitoring. The findings establish a 2025 baseline for assessing changes in farming practice adoption and are directly applicable to English farm management policy and practice benchmarking.

Key measures

Prevalence rates of farming practice adoption across English farm holdings

Outcomes reported

The survey documents the prevalence and adoption rates of various farming practices across English farms as of February 2025. No causal relationships with agronomic or environmental outcomes are inferred from the cross-sectional design.

Theme
Farming systems, soils & land use
Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Study type
Policy
Study design
Cross-sectional survey
Source type
Industry/policy report
Status
Published
Geography
United Kingdom
System type
Mixed farming
Catalogue ID
IRmqggqh5z-02549a

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