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Beef
Most small farms have an income below €5,000
Noel Bardon
Teagasc analysis of NFS data shows that approximately 36% of country's farms had an output lower than €8,000 in 2020.
21 May 2024 News
Over one third of Irish farms’ output below €8,000 in 2022
A Teagasc study has found that the average income on beef and sheep farms classed as small came to only €2,638 in 2022.
24 January 2024 News
1,400 farmers exiting farming every year
A total of 8,773 farmers have left farming since 2016, with almost half of those farmers located in Connacht, Clare, Kerry and Donegal.