{"id":744096,"date":"2026-08-20T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744096\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:56:10","slug":"ni-agriculture-farm-profits-topped-1bn-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744096\/","title":{"rendered":"NI agriculture: Farm profits topped \u00a31bn in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The overall performance in 2025 was heavily influenced by developments in the beef sector which saw prices rise to record levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beef farmers saw the value of their output rise by 37% to just under \u00a3900m, despite the amount of beef being produced falling slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The increase in beef prices reflects longer term trends in the industry across the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farmers have been getting out of beef farming after years of low profits and tighter regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That has led to fall in supply which coupled with steady consumer demand has seen prices rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other strongly performing parts of Northern Ireland farming in 2025 were dairy and egg production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both those sectors have seen significant consolidation and investment over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) has forecast that at the individual farm level, profits are likely to be up by 19% in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across all farm types that would mean from an average \u00a356,390 in 2024\/25 to \u00a366,840 in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overall performance in 2025 was heavily influenced by developments in the beef sector which saw prices rise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}