Share of farm businesses using soil nutrient software in England 2017-2023, by type

* Numbers for 2020, for prior years the number of respondents are as follows:

2017/18 - 1766
2018/19 - 1768
2019/20 - 1664
2020/21 - 1661

The source notes: 'Results are weighted to represent the whole population of farm businesses that have at least 25,000 Euros of standard output as recorded in the annual June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. In 2018/19, this accounted for approximately 57,100 farm businesses.'
Furthermore: 'From 2018/19, the classification of farms is based on 2013 standard output coefficients. 2017/18 results have been recalculated and presented in this release to allow comparability between 2017/18 and 2018/19.'
Additionally:

'Farm Type
Where reference is made to the type of farm, this refers to the ‘robust type’, which is a standardized farm classification system.'
This statistic using original data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0