From Scottish farm business income: annual estimates 2024-2025 last updated 21 April 2026, the above and:

Average farm incomes rose in 2024-25, after experiencing some sharp declines in 2023-24. The increases are largely driven by higher livestock prices.

Average farm income is around £58,800 in 2024-25. This is an increase of 30% (£13,400) from the previous year’s income of £45,400, which was the lowest income since 2019-20, after adjusting for inflation.

The average farm made a profit of £500 from agricultural activity in 2024-25. Agricultural profit (agricultural output minus costs) is rarely seen for the average farm. This last happened in 2022-23 when average farm income reached a record high.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-farm-business-income-annual-estimates-2024-2025/

You can see in the graph above that farm income with subsidies had increased by nearly 50% in the last 12 years but that three-quarters of that came from government ‘support payments.’ More positively, the underlying income, without these payments has dramatically increase from minus £20K to plus £13k.

This support, a devolved responsibility, comes almost entirely from the Scottish Government, and average of £41 300 compared with £35 100, per farm.

https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2021/06/foi-202100198676/documents/foi—202100198676—information-released—report/foi—202100198676—information-released—report/govscot%3Adocument/FOI%2B-%2B202100198676%2B-%2BInformation%2BReleased%2B-%2BReport.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

How have the opposition parties reacted? From Tim Eagle (Con), in a Scottish Parliament meeting on 10th December 2025, as this year’s increase was developing and no doubt picked up by the media operating in Scotland:

The Scottish Conservatives, including me, believe that farming deserves better rural support. It deserves multi-annual funding, real clarity, respect for those who work the land and even really radical stuff such as support for food production. Perhaps the SNP should stop hiding behind green labels and deliver the support it promised, or step aside and let those who value food—Scotland’s rural communities—get on with the real work.

https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/meeting-of-parliament-10-12-2025?iob=142995&meeting=16740&utm_source=chatgpt.com