Agri-Business
Shoppers have seen food prices rise at the checkout by an estimated 4.6% in the last 12 months,...
Cattle slaughterings were down by 20.4% last month when compared with September 2024, new figures...
Producer prices for food products increased by 4.5% in the 12 months to September 2025, new figures...
65% of employees in Ireland’s agriculture, forestry and fishing sector have no pension, according...
Food and live animal exports in the first eight months of the year were worth just over €11...
Agricultural output prices increased by 15.5% in the 12 months to August 2025, new figures from the...
Ireland’s rate of self-sufficiency for meat increased to 233% in 2024, compared to 230% in 2023,...
Pig/Poultry
The value of Irish poultry meat imports increased to €626.9 million last year, according to...
Consumers paid an extra 68c for a pound of butter at the checkout over the 12 months to September...
Excise clearances of marked gas oil, also known as green diesel, were 1.6% higher in the first...
Dairy
Domestic milk intake by milk processors and co-ops was estimated at 947.1 million litres in August...
Farmers in Cork and Kerry, the largest milk producing region in the country, saw total...
Consumer prices for food increased by almost 5% in the 12 months up to September, according to...
In 2024, €5.5 billion was collected in environment-related taxes, new figures from the...
The number of dairy cows in the country fell by around 36,000 (-2.2%) in the year to June...
Tillage
Provisional estimates for June 2025 show a 5,800ha (+2.2%) rise in the area under total cereals,...
Sheep
The number of sheep slaughtered between January and August 2025 fell by 18.7% when compared with...
Producer prices for food products increased by 4.4% in the 12 months to August 2025, according to a...
Food and live animal exports up to the end of July were valued at almost €9.8 billion, according...
Over the 12 months to July 2025, increases in prices for a number of inputs were recorded, Central...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 2.0% between August 2024 and August 2025, up from an annual...
Machinery News
217 new tractors were licensed for the first time in August 2025, according to the Central...
Dairy News
Domestic milk intake by milk processors and co-ops was estimated at 1.01 billion litres in July...
