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Farmers: Income

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 28 March 2025UIN 40342

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 30413 on Farmers: Income, if he will make an estimate of median income for farmers in the 2023-24 financial year.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

Published data for England 2023/24 are based on mean average incomes, rather than medians and are available at: Farm business income - GOV.UK. These show that, in 2023/24, average (mean) Farm Business Income (in simple terms, the output generated by the farm business minus total farm costs) across all farm types was £45,300.

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