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The most common kinds of diversification are probably letting of barns as warehouses and storage, letting of former farm labourers' cottages (whether as holiday cottages or on longer leases) and farm shops. The number of farm shops in the UK increased by more than 50% between 1999 and 2003. [232] [233]
In 2021 with 1,3988,000 metric tons, the UK ranks as the 13th largest producer of wheat in the world. [26] English farming is on the whole intensive and highly mechanised. [27] The UK produces only 60% of the food it consumes. The vast majority of imports and exports are with other Western European countries. [28]
The number of farmers in England has fallen 5 per cent between 2020 and 2024 and 38 per cent are aged 65 and over, ... in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org, ...
Country Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) Year Source Norway 2.1: 2017 [1] Switzerland 3.5: 2017 [1] Australia 2.6: 2017 [1] Ireland 5.4: 2017 [1] Germany 1.3: 2017 [1] ...
There are a few city farms closer to the centre of the city and about 30,000 allotments. [1] There are 135.66 square kilometres (135,660,000 m 2) of farmland in the Greater London area. Nearly all of the farmland in the London area is a basis for the growing culture. [2]
Price of milk in the UK from 1990 to 2019, both each month and the two-year average. Values are in 2019 prices [1] In Europe, UK milk production is third after France & Germany and is around the tenth highest in the world. There are around 12,000 dairy farms in the UK. [2] Around 14 billion litres of milk are commercially produced in the UK ...
From April 2026, farms worth more than $1.3 million will face a 20% tax when they are passed on to the next generation, half the usual rate. Defending the changes, which supporters say will recoup ...
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is an employer association representing farming and growing businesses within England and Wales. The NFU originated as the Lincolnshire Farmers' Union (LFU) which was founded in 1904. Over the next four years, similar farmers' organisations were established in neighbouring counties.