Scottish farm business income: annual estimates 2024-2025
Farm business level estimates of average incomes for 2024-2025. An Accredited Official Statistics publication for Scotland.
First published: 26 March 2026.
Last updated 21 April 2026.
Introduction
This report provides estimates of farm business income (FBI), or farm income, for the accounting year 2024-25, which relates to the 2024 crop year. Farm income is the total income available to the people who draw money from the farm business, usually the owners or partners who are not paid a regular wage. In simple terms, income is the output generated by the farm business minus total farm costs.
The data presented are real terms values (adjusted for the most recent year prices) unless otherwise stated. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred and adjusted for inflation using GDP deflators. Percentage changes are calculated from unrounded figures.
This report provides a correction to 2023-24 estimates for general cropping and average farm or “all farms” results. The correction includes data on potato outputs missed in the 2023-24 publication.
More information about the data source, methodology and changes or corrections are available under Data and methodology.
Our infographic provides an overview of farm incomes in 2024-25.
All data tables are available to download under supporting documents.
An Accredited Official Statistics Publication for Scotland
These statistics are accredited official statistics. The Office for Statistics Regulation has independently reviewed and accredited these statistics as complying with the standards of trustworthiness, quality, and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics.
These accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the OSR in November 2020. The accreditation notice is available on the OSR website.
Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
Scottish Government statistics are regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
More information about Scottish Government statistics is available on the Scottish Government website.