Future of Farming - 2018

About your farm or farming business

This page is to understand your opinion of your farm or business - its risks, strengths and opportunities.

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* 1. What's your involvement in farming?

Family farmer

Tenant farmer

Manager of a farm business

Cooperative member

Work in the agricultural industry

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What type of farm do you run? (Please choose all that apply)

Arable

Horticulture

Milk/cattle

Sheep

Pig

Fruit

Poultry

Potatoes/tubers

Mixed

Other involvement in agriculture. (please specify)

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* 3. What will be your greatest risks in 2018? Please choose at least 3.

Operating cash flow

Plateauing yields

No potential to grow the business

Insufficient innovation in farming technology

No new farming techniques

Unfavourable policies (such as chemical regulation)

Uncertainty in Brexit negotiations

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Looking ahead to 2022, what do you consider to be your greatest medium term risks? Please choose at least 3.

Operating cash flow

Plateauing yields

New farming techniques are not ready sufficiently quickly

No potential to grow the business

Losing subsidies

Losing access to workforce

Losing access to markets

Unfavourable policies (such as chemical regulation)

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Looking further ahead, to 2030, what are your greatest long term concerns? Please choose at least 3.

Succession

Inability to manage/hand on the farm as a viable business

Inability to adapt the business in the face of change

New technology not delivering an answer to current problems eg yield

Loss of soil quality

UK farming is not financially viable in a global market

Inability to meet food demands of growing global population

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What are the greatest strengths of your farm business? Please choose at least 3.

Long term view

Effective adopter of technology

Understands the detail

The value of underlying assets

Experience of dealing with adversity

Healthy profits

Increasing yields

Improving techniques

Producing an in-demand product

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* 7. What are your greatest opportunities? Please choose at least three.

Developing new farm enterprises

Rural tourism

Adding value to farm produce (creating a product)

Raising debt for new investments

Selling land for development

Automation of farm processes

Using data to raise yields

Using precision techniques to increase profits

Artificial agronomy intelligence

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* 8. To what extent do you believe robotics and digitisation of farming has the potential to transform the farming industry today?

Not at all

Completely

Clear

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* 9. Which technologies do you see becoming important on your farm? Please choose as many as you would like.

Variable rate spraying

Soil maps

Farm management software

Autonomous tractors

Drones

Robotics

Using AI to aid decision making

Leasing (not owning) machinery

Satellite imagery

Biotechnology (biological controls)

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Within what timescale are you planning to introduce robotics and digitisation to your farm?

Already started

ASAP/this year

3-5 years

7-10 years

Not sure - want to be confident the technology can deliver first

Not currently planned for my farm

Other/I am not a farmer

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* 1. What's your involvement in farming?

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* 2. What type of farm do you run? (Please choose all that apply)

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* 3. What will be your greatest risks in 2018? Please choose at least 3.

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* 4. Looking ahead to 2022, what do you consider to be your greatest medium term risks? Please choose at least 3.

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* 5. Looking further ahead, to 2030, what are your greatest long term concerns? Please choose at least 3.

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* 6. What are the greatest strengths of your farm business? Please choose at least 3.

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* 7. What are your greatest opportunities? Please choose at least three.

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* 8. To what extent do you believe robotics and digitisation of farming has the potential to transform the farming industry today?

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* 9. Which technologies do you see becoming important on your farm? Please choose as many as you would like.

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* 10. Within what timescale are you planning to introduce robotics and digitisation to your farm?

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* 11. If you had £50,000 to invest in any of the above technologies, which one would you back? Why?