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Crop & arable farming in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 1,040 crop & arable farming companies are based in United Kingdom; 5 are hiring right now and Cambridge has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
1,040
Hiring now
5 · 1 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Mixed farm direct sales · 457
Top city
Cambridge · 8
Parent market
Agriculture & forestry · 5,421
1,040crop & arable farming companies in United Kingdom
5hiring today
1opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Crop & arable farming in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Mixed farm direct sales
45744%
Arable & grain farms
29929%
Produce growers wholesale
14214%
Fruit berry farms
12612%
Seed producers
878%
General livestock farms
687%
General horticulture operations
656%
Direct sale livestock farms
626%
Other crop & arable farming
242%
Mushroom farms
192%
Plant nurseries growers
192%
Poultry & egg farms
141%
Agricultural field contracting
121%
Other agricultural contracting services
71%
Forestry contracting harvesting
50%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
209 · 0
2-10 employees
684 · 0
11-50 employees
82 · 0
51-200 employees
37 · 2
201-500 employees
16 · 1
501-1000 employees
8 · 1
1001-5000 employees
4 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Cambridge
81%
London
61%
Arbroath
50%
Dennington
50%
Aldham
40%
Bristol
40%
Downham Market
40%
Gedney Broadgate
40%
Newport
40%
Abbots Morton
30%
Barham
30%
Beverley
30%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest crop & arable farming companies in United Kingdom

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

1,040 crop & arable farming companies in United Kingdom.

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04 — What they run

The stack of crop & arable farming in United Kingdom

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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1,040 crop & arable farming companies are based in United Kingdom; 5 are hiring right now and Cambridge has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/agriculture_forestry/united-kingdom/crop_and_arable_farming)
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  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Crop & arable farming in United Kingdom: questions

How many crop & arable farming companies are there in United Kingdom?

1,040 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Agriculture & forestry → Crop & arable farming → leaf niches such as mixed farm direct sales, arable & grain farms, produce growers wholesale. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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