Nix Farm Management Pocketbook

The Nix Farm Management Pocketbook helps you to:

  • Measure your business by budgeting your costs and income
  • Benchmark your business by offering standard data
  • Spot opportunities to raise efficiency (e.g. contract or buy a machine)
  • Measure the benefits of diversification (e.g. a wind turbine or glamping)
  • Check prices ahead of negotiations

Using The Pocketbook you can:

  • Calculate the financial returns of farming sectors
  • Measure the potential of farm systems
  • Gain an insight into the future of farming

The Nix Farm Management Pocketbook is the most comprehensive source of agricultural business information to the UK.

First published 60 years ago, it is the most widely used and most trusted agricultural costing book amongst UK farmers. It is the longest running costings book in the industry.

It is kept up to date annually, keeping it the most useful book of its type.
It includes 350 pages of fully revised data, includes gross margins, overheads, rents, finance, all capital, grants, taxation, environmental impact of farming, greenhouse gas emission data and much more.

The Pocketbook is available in print and online. The online portal hosts additional information on top of the book, free to subscribers.

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Testimonials

"It’s a very good guide especially as I am trying to increase my farming operations to keep a keen eye on all the costs and have a base to compare costs too. I Find it valuable."
Andrew Parker
"As a rural planner and farming consultant I need accurate and up to date financial information as evidence in litigation or to support planning applications and appeals. The Pocketbook is my most reliable source of information and never in my experience have the figures within been successfully challenged"
David Campion, Chartered Surveyor
"Your publication is so very useful and I'm amazed that all farmers don't know about it! Also smallholders! Amazing work and having figures to work from really helps us!"
Angela Timms, Managing Director
"This book is a treasure of information about farm management. By using this book, we can find key information and figures of comprehensive topics. I always keep this book within my reach"
Tomoyuki Kuwaharada, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan