Agriculture succession in Northern Ireland

Name: Agriculture business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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758 of 1,641 agriculture companies in Northern Ireland — 46.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,641

Director aged 60+758

Exposure rate46.2%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

1,641

Companies measured

758

Director 60+

340

Director 70+

46.2%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; agriculture nationally runs at 53.5%.

Measure	Companies
Agriculture companies in Northern Ireland measured	1,641
Oldest director aged 60 or over	758
Oldest director aged 70 or over	340

Of the 758 with a director over 60, 98 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Agriculture in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	2,850	60.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,667	57.7%
South West	2,777	56.9%
East Midlands	1,317	55.8%
Wales	1,194	54.8%
South East	2,670	53.8%
North East	507	53.6%
Scotland	2,266	51.5%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,262	43.8%
Retail	1,010	25.8%
Investment	939	43.6%
Consultancy Services	844	36.4%
General Construction	789	40.2%
Other Leisure	705	36.5%
Property Development	703	46.3%
Investment / Fund Management	656	38.6%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

See all Agriculture succession data or everything in Northern Ireland.

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ExitRadar, "Agriculture succession in Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-agriculture/northern-ireland/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.