The first part of the paper presents the average selected production and economic results for a sample of Polish farms running agricultural accounting in the economic year of 1933/34, at the background of average results of farms running agricultural accounting at the same period in other European countries. The second half of the paper attempted an assessment of the production and economic condition in 2010 of the Polish individual farms from the Polish FADN sample compared to the results achieved by farms from selected European Union countries.