{"id":494415,"date":"2026-06-11T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494415\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:42:21","slug":"agricultural-prices-decreased-in-q1-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494415\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural prices decreased in Q1 2026 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first quarter of 2026, the average price of agricultural output in the EU<\/a> decreased by 2.9% compared with the same quarter in 2025. This was a slightly higher rate of decline than that of the last quarter of 2025 (-1.7%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The average price of agricultural inputs (goods and services consumed in agriculture and not related to investment, such as energy, fertilisers or feedingstuffs) changed little (-0.4%) in the first quarter of 2026. This continued the relative price stability for these inputs during 2025.<\/p>\n

This information comes from data on agricultural price indices<\/a> published by Eurostat today.<\/p>\n

\"Developments<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source datasets: apri_pi20_outq<\/a> and apri_pi20_inq<\/a><\/p>\n

In the first quarter of 2026, the average price of agricultural output showed year-on-year decreases in 19 EU countries; the sharpest declines were in Belgium (-12.9% compared with Q1 2025), Germany (-11.0%) and Lithuania (-10.8%). Prices increased in the other 8 EU countries, most notably in Malta (+14.8%), Croatia (+8.5%) and Finland (+5.5%).<\/p>\n

In terms of the average price of inputs not related to investment, declines were recorded in 14 EU countries, with the sharpest rates being in Germany (-3.8%), the Netherlands (-3.4%), Cyprus and Portugal (both -3.1%). In the other 13 EU countries there were increases, the sharpest rates being in Lithuania (+16.8%), Romania (+5.0%) and Ireland (+3.6%).<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source datasets: apri_pi20_outq<\/a> and apri_pi20_inq<\/a><\/p>\n

At the EU level, milk and cereal prices decreased by an average 15.5% and by 11.7%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2026, compared with the same quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the goods and services consumed in agriculture, the average prices of fertilisers and soil improvers in the EU rose by 6.6% in the same period, while feedingstuffs and energy declined by 4.9% and by 0.6% respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first quarter of 2026, the average price of agricultural output in the EU decreased by 2.9%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3810,72,113,86132,61,60],"class_list":["post-494415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-forestry-and-fisheries","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}