L’Irlanda vede un aumento del +21,1% dei prezzi della produzione agricola – tra i più alti dell’UE (Eurostat, secondo trimestre 2025)

Before the anti-farmer brigade comes in here saying we are rich, let me also be the guy who informs you how statistics like this lie.

1. Global markets set the prices of agricultural produce not local ones
2. Ireland’s agricultural mix leans very heavily towards beef and dairy, with the most beef cows per capita in the EU
3. Price increases in agrifoods have been heavily skewed toward beef and dairy (there aren’t enough cows after a long period of reducing the national herd combined with BSE and other issues in Europe, leading to a lot of animals thre to be culled.
4. Grain prices/profit are actually well down and this is likely why you see such low increases for France, italy, Germany etc, which do a lot of tillage

TL:DR: we make more beef and dairy than anyone else and its beef and dairy that have seen the biggest prices. Agrifood prices are set globally not locally so you should be happy your local farmer has more profit to spend locally after years of being in decline