Tillage
Climate and global stocks challenging Irish tillage sector
Teagasc has predicted another tough year for the tillage sector, and even into the next five to seven years. Weather...
Tillage
Teagasc has predicted another tough year for the tillage sector, and even into the next five to seven years. Weather...
Dairy
With a 17% decline in the average dairy farm income last year, dairy farmers had to increase milk production by...
Beef
Increases in support payments led to higher suckler farm income figures in 2016, which otherwise would not have been the...
Sheep
Only 24% of sheep farms in Ireland are ‘viable’ according to Teagasc. The National Farm Survey revealed, of the 12,758...
Dairy
National Farm Survey results showing a 17% drop in dairy farmers’ incomes in 2016 confirmed the fact that farmers have taken...
Rural Life
Regions where dairying is most prevalent are generally more profitable and have a lower reliance on direct payments, according to Teagasc’s...
Rural Life
Approximately 19% of farms in Ireland produced a farm income of less than €5,000 in 2016, according to the preliminary results...
Rural Life
Farm income varies significantly by farming enterprise. The average farm income across the 83,377 farms represented by the Teagasc National...
CAP / Schemes
The average direct payment was €17,932 in 2016, accounting for 75% of farm income, a preliminary estimate from Teagasc’s National Farm Survey...
Dairy
Almost 60% of dairy farms had debts averaging €99,058 last year, a preliminary estimate of Teagasc’s National Farm Survey results show....
Rural Life
Family farm income decreased by 9% in 2016, bringing the average income figure for the farming sector to €24,060, according...
Agri-Business
The exclusion of farmers’ own labour costs from the National Farm Survey is a topic for much discussion and debate...
Agri-Business
In 2015, net subsidies accounted for 52.6% of agricultural income (operating surplus) at State level, new figures from the Central Statistics...
Tillage
Tillage farm incomes are set to drop by €14,000 in 2016 compared to last year, Teagasc’s Fiona Thorne has said....
Agri-Business
Some 40% of Irish farmers earn less than €10,000 from their farm, the latest figures from Teagasc show. It also...