Agri-Business
National Farm Survey: Average farm income increases by 9%
The Teagasc National Farm Survey for 2020 has been released, showing a general increase in farm incomes for last year....
Agri-Business
The Teagasc National Farm Survey for 2020 has been released, showing a general increase in farm incomes for last year....
Tillage
The average family farm income on tillage farms in 2019 was €34,437. This is a decline of 15% on 2018....
Tillage
The Teagasc National Farm Survey 2018 Sustainability Report, published yesterday, Tuesday, June 23, classified 62% of overall tillage farms as...
Beef
Teagasc has published a number of ‘factsheets’ which outline farm incomes for the year 2018 across a number of sectors,...
Agri-Business
Average farm debt increased by 10% on dairy enterprises in 2018 to €118,446, according to the Teagasc National Farm Survey...
Agri-Business
Just 32% of the farm population represented by the Teagasc National Farm Survey in 2018 were classed as being economically...
Sheep
The average sheep farmer income took a hit of 21% last year as a result of the extreme weather conditions...
Dairy
Soaring input costs, particularly for feed, hit dairy farm incomes in 2018, resulting in a 31% drop in income, according...
Dairy
Northern and western dairy farmers lost out on 30 grazing days in 2017 compared to their counterparts in the south....
Rural Life
The need for off-farm income is just “a fact of life” for most drystock farmers, the director of Teagasc, Prof....
Beef
Beef farmers got the short end of the stick economically in 2017 – compared to other farm enterprises – according...
Agri-Business
The number of farms that were classed as ‘economically vulnerable’ by Teagasc dropped in 2017 compared to the previous year,...
Dairy
It was revealed this morning that dairy farmers invested over €400 million in 2017; representing 50% of overall investment. This...
Rural Life
The number of farm accidents has jumped by 31% in the last 10 years, according a national survey of farm...
Beef
Single suckling is the predominant cattle production system in Ireland, according to the 2016 Teagasc National Farm Survey. Data taken from...
Sheep
The average mid-season lamb producer had a net margin of €155/ha in 2016, Teagasc’s National Farm Survey (NFS) data has revealed. The...
Beef
Cattle enterprises are, by far, the most popular across the country. Of the 83,377 farms represented by the Teagasc National...
Dairy
The average dairy farm income, across the 15,639 farms represented by the Teagasc National Farm Survey, was €51,809 in 2016....