List of Farmers in the UK

Last updated 2 November 2026

There are 27,717 farmers in the UK, one in every 319 UK companies. Most of them are small: nine in ten have one to four people, and only 80 firms employ 50 people or more. Three in five of all farmers are based in South West, Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire and the Humber and South East. Below you find the largest farmers in the UK, the regions where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our UK company database or through the Companies House API.

27,717 companies indexed · Data counted on 2 November 2026

Companies27,7171 in319 UK companiesRegions12Largest regionSouth West 4,229Sole traders29%Employees1-4 (91%)Revenue$100-500K (58%)Email7%Phone69%Website19%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	2 Agriculture LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Newbridge	Fairview Mill	City of Edinburgh	EH28 8NB	*****.uk	1963	$570,434,082	346	Corporation	20	SC156515
2	Foundation Rachel And Pamela Schiele	Unitedkingdom	Queen'S Park	Flat 314	London	SW1P 4DA	N/A	1994	$323,348,000	17	Corporation	N/A	02936866
3	Springhill Farms (pershore) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Evesham	Evesham Vale Growers Ltd	Worcestershire	WR11 7TD	*****.com	2006	$169,084,433	546	Corporation	13	06015601
4	Oaklands Farm Eggs LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Telford	Ellerdine Grange	Telford and Wrekin	TF6 6QR	*****.uk	1955	$147,309,510	205	Corporation	N/A	00725104
5	F W S Carter & Sons LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Clyst Saint Mary	Greendale Business Park	Devon	EX5 1EW	*****.uk	1986	$92,423,599	318	Corporation	15	02033792
6	Heathpatch LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Ipswich	Dairy Farm Office	Suffolk	IP7 6RA	*****.uk	1972	$59,399,189	315	Corporation	15	03381606
7	G.S. Shropshire & Sons LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Fordham Abbey	Hainey Farm	Cambridgeshire	CB7 5TZ	*****.com	1952	$55,801,596	154	Corporation	4	00596640
8	Vidya Global LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Monument-aldgate-fenchurch Street-tower Hill	First Floor	London	EC4M 7RD	N/A	2018	$54,503,446	8	Corporation	2	11388322
9	Everards Brewery LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Thorpe Acre	9 Cooper Way	Leicestershire	LE19 2AN	*****.uk	1936	$51,178,599	162	Corporation	157	00319261
10	Duncan Farms LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Turriff	Muirden Farm	Aberdeenshire	AB53 4NH	*****.uk	2016	$50,184,234	84	Corporation	N/A	SC473564
11	P A Wright & Sons LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Sheepy Parva	Gopsall House Farm	Leicestershire	CV9 3PP	*****.com	1955	$48,010,825	241	Corporation	3	01886862
12	Mark H Poskitt LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Kellington	Weeland Road	North Yorkshire	DN14 0FL	*****.uk	1956	$45,631,348	249	Corporation	N/A	00570931
13	Rspb Sales LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Sandy	The Lodge	Central Bedfordshire	SG19 2DL	*****.uk	1992	$44,421,213	56	Corporation	45	02693778
14	Newpark Developments (nw) LTD	Unitedkingdom	Omagh	72-74 Omagh Road	Fermanagh and Omagh	BT78 3AJ	*****.uk	2014	$41,492,619	24	Corporation	4	NI624640
15	Crockway Farms LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Dorchester	Frampton	Dorset	DT2 9NW	*****.com	2011	$37,070,977	59	Corporation	11	07774685
16	Strawson LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Halam	Featherstone House Farm	Nottinghamshire	NG22 8RD	*****.com	2001	$33,964,613	173	Corporation	3	04269401
17	Webber Holdings (exmoor) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	South Molton	Lime Court	Devon	EX36 3LH	N/A	2017	$32,867,642	164	Corporation	6	10918528
18	Velcourt LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Ross-on-wye	Orchard House	County of Herefordshire	HR9 7XU	*****.uk	1976	$30,637,232	135	Corporation	28	01254702
19	Fex Farming LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Deal	Broad Lane	Kent	CT14 0LU	N/A	2016	$29,605,229	175	Corporation	7	10314435
20	Potters Farm Production Llp	Unitedkingdom	Thirsk	Village Farm	North Yorkshire	YO7 4BZ	*****.uk	2016	$29,139,203	34	Partnership of unknown type	N/A	OC404164
21	Hugh Lowe Farms LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Rushenden	Barons Place	Kent	ME18 5NF	*****.com	1893	$28,086,964	360	Corporation	3	02477268
22	A S Green LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Ridgeway Cross	Rookrow Farm	County of Herefordshire	WR13 5PR	*****.com	2013	$27,974,807	138	Corporation	3	08388566
23	A C Hulme And Sons	Unitedkingdom	Ash	Hoaden Court	Kent	CT3 2LG	*****.uk	1969	$27,438,638	114	Corporation	3	00803130
24	Craig Furse Construction LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Holsworthy	Worden Farm	Devon	EX22 7NT	N/A	2021	$26,841,052	41	Corporation	4	13277258
25	Blankney Estates LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Beckingham	Temple Grange	Lincolnshire	LN5 0AX	*****.com	1940	$26,045,817	100	Corporation	7	00362871

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Largest farmers in the UK

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in South West, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Springhill Farms (Pershore) is the largest farmer in the UK by headcount. 80 firms employ 50 people or more; 27 employ 100 or more.

1Worcestershire546 staff
2Kent360 staff
3City of Edinburgh346 staff
4North Yorkshire249 staff
5Barnsley233 staff
6London220 staff
7Devon205 staff
8Telford and Wrekin205 staff
9Nottinghamshire176 staff
10Kent154 staff

By employee size · 27,542 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	25,022	91%
5-9	1,749	6%
10-19	460	2%
20-49	231	0.8%
50-99	53	0.2%
100-199	20	<0.1%
200-499	6	<0.1%
500-999	1	<0.1%
1,000+	0	0%

91% have 1 to 4 people; 231 have 20 to 49; 80 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	10,036	37%
$100K-$500K	15,866	58%
$500K-$1M	771	3%
$1M-$5M	629	2%
$5M-$10M	44	0.2%
$10M-$50M	53	0.2%
$50M-$100M	6	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	3	<0.1%
$500M+	1	<0.1%

58% between $100,000 and $500,000; 629 between $1M and $5M; 107 above $5M.

How many farmers are there in the UK?

Farmers in the UK

27,717

2 November 2026

There are 27,717 farmers in the UK in our data (2 November 2026). That is one in every 319 UK companies. About 2 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (499 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 26,937 97%
Head offices: 473
Branch offices: 307

Classification

Our platform filter is the national code 01500.

8,796 of the 27,717 are Ltd and PLC (32%); 8,157 are sole traders. They come from Companies House and our UK register data, through the Companies House API.

Firm sizes in the UK

Of the 27,542 UK farmers with a known headcount, 25,022 (91%) have one to four people, 1,749 have five to nine, 691 have ten to 49 and 80 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (15,866, 58%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all UK companies

Micro under 1026,771 97%
Small 10 to 49691 3%
Medium 50 to 24979 0.3%
Large 250+1 <0.1%

Grey line: the share among all UK companies (93% have under ten staff).

107

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 63 more than $10 million.

499

firms were entered in 2026.

Farmers in South West

South West has 4,229 farmers, 0.6% of all 693,104 South West companies and 95% above the national share. Nine in ten South West firms have fewer than five people; 11 have 50 or more. 77 new firms were entered in 2026, 1,837 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 3,835 · 91%
5-9: 272 · 6%
10-19: 70 · 2%
20-49: 30 · 0.7%
50+: 11 · 0.3%

Legal form

Sole traders: 1,274 · 30%
Partnerships: 1,174 · 28%
Ltd and PLC: 1,266 · 30%
Other or none: 515 · 12%

Of the UK total: 15.3%
Of all South West companies: 0.6%
Against the national share: 1.9×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 77
Entered 2025: 102
Of UK's 2026 entries: 15.4%

Old

Before 1990: 1,837 · 43%
1990 or later: 2,392 · 57%
Of UK's pre-1990 firms: 15.9%

Reachable

Email: 360 · 9%
Phone: 3,002 · 71%
Website: 886 · 21%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 1,514 · 36%
$100K-$500K: 2,486 · 59%
$500K-$1M: 108 · 3%
$1M and more: 94 · 2%

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Where in the UK?

South West has the most farmers in the UK (4,229), ahead of Scotland (4,211), Wales (3,128), Yorkshire and the Humber (2,370) and South East (2,317). Together the five hold three in five of them. Relative to their size, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have the most: 2.3 to 2.9 times the national share.

Regions by number of firms

12 UK regions have at least one farmer; 12 have ten or more; 0 have exactly one. Click a region to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Farmers per 100 companies, in regions with at least 100 of them. The national share is 0.31. Wales has 2.9 times the national share.

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Newcomers in the UK in 2026

499 farmers were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, about 2 a working day, after 838 in 2025. The UK as a whole saw 534,395 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes <0.1% of the inflow.

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490 of this year's 499 are Ltd and PLC.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Cornwall49 staff
2Norfolk10 staff
3West Northamptonshire10 staff
4Gateshead5 staff
5East Riding of Yorkshire5 staff

Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

Three in ten UK farmers work as sole traders, against 7% of all UK companies. Only one firm in three is a Ltd or PLC.

Sole traders8,15729%
Partnerships (partnerships and LLPs)7,65728%
Ltd and PLC8,79632%
No form on record or other3,10711%

Single-site: 97%
Head offices: 473
Branches: 307

All UK companies: 7% sole traders, 3% partnerships, 62% Ltd and PLC.

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 3 agriculture companies for every farmer in the UK.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Agriculture Companies	83,375	25%	87%
Farmers	27,717	19%	90%
Pet Companies	7,140	89%	70%
Horse Farmers	2,721	21%	91%
Chicken Farmers	1,904	26%	75%
Nurserymen	1,840	61%	76%

In other countries

The UK has more farmers than Belgium or the Netherlands.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
Sweden	43,506	23.5
The UK	27,717	3.1
Belgium	25,779	10.8
The Netherlands	4,375	1.1

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The oldest firms in the UK

Our data holds 99 UK farmers from before 1900, 2,218 from before 1950 and 11,559 from before 1990.

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1. Leicestershire
1820
1. Shropshire
1824
1. Aberdeenshire
1828
1. Oxfordshire
1830
1. North Lincolnshire
1840
1. South Ayrshire

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11,559

UK farmers date from before 1990

242

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Farmers are easier to reach than the average UK company: 69% list a phone number and 19% a website.

Email2,027 7%
Phone19,089 69%
Website5,206 19%

Grey line: all UK companies (email 15%, phone 30%, website 30%).

The full list with these fields is in our UK company database.

Frequently asked questions

How many farmers are there in the UK?

There are 27,717 farmers in the UK in our data, counted on 2 November 2026. That is one in every 319 UK companies.

Which is the largest farmer in the UK?

Springhill Farms (Pershore) in Worcestershire, with 546 staff. By revenue 2 Agriculture in City of Edinburgh leads with $570.4 million a year.

Which UK region has the most farmers?

South West, with 4,229, ahead of Scotland (4,211), Wales (3,128), Yorkshire and the Humber (2,370) and South East (2,317). Relative to its size, Wales has the most: 2.9 times the national share.

How many farmers are there in South West?

4,229, which is 0.6% of all 693,104 South West companies and 95% above the national share.

How big is a typical farmer?

Small. 91% of the 27,542 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 80 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are UK farmers sole traders or companies?

Three in ten (8,157) are sole traders, 28% are partnerships and 32% (8,796) are Ltd and PLC.

How many farmers started in 2026?

499 were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, after 838 in 2025. 490 of them are Ltd and PLC.

What is the oldest farmer in the UK?

Hames & Young in Leicestershire, 1820, followed by J A Dickin in Shropshire (1820) and P J Gaul in Aberdeenshire (1824). 99 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers farmers?

Our platform filters them on the national code 01500.

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 27,717 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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