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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farms Data (10 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: The annual Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS) examines many aspects of farming, including viability. A farm is defined as viable if family labour is remunerated at greater than or equal to the minimum wage and there is sufficient income to provide an additional five per cent return on non-land based assets employed on the farm. Over the past decade or more the results indicate that...

Written Answers — Farm Household Incomes: Farm Household Incomes (4 May 2005)

Mary Coughlan: The CSO 1999-2000 household budget survey indicates that approximately 60% of farm household income comes from off-farm sources. This indicates that many farm families do not solely rely on farm income for their livelihood and off-farm employment has become increasingly common for farm families. Interestingly, much of this off-farm employment is related to agriculture and the agri-food...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (8 Dec 2015)

Simon Coveney: The following table shows average family farm income from Teagasc’s National Farm Survey for the years 2011 to 2014, by system of farming. Dairying Cattle Rearing Cattle Other Sheep Tillage Mixed Livestock All farms % of farms represented 20% 23% 30% 16% 8% 3% 100% 2011 68,570 10,453 14,573 16,805 35,296 34,902 24,461 2012 49,290 12,186 17,896 18,243...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Income Data (19 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The table below shows family farm income estimates from Teagasc’s National Farm Survey for the last three years, by system of farming. Family Farm Income by system of farming, 2011 to 2013 Family farm income by system of farming € Dairying Cattle Rearing Cattle Other Sheep Tillage All farms 2011 67,847 12,827 19,183 19,050 37,092 30,095 2012 49,290 12,186 17,896...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Creed: In March this year, the Central Statistics Office released its Preliminary Estimate of Output, Input and Income in Agriculture for 2017, and this shows that aggregate farm income, or operating surplus, increased by 35.2% to €3,498 million in 2017. This followed an increase of 3.6% in 2016. The value of goods output for the sector increased by 13.6% to €8,016 million. There...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (6 Jul 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The two main sources of statistics on farmers in Ireland are the Central Statistics Office (CSO) Agricultural Census and the Teagasc National Farm Survey. However, while neither source has details of full-time and part -time farmers by county, they do provide information on related issues. According to the CSO Agricultural Censuscarried out in 2020, with detailed results issued in May 2022,...

Written Answers — Fishing Industry: Fishing Industry (18 Oct 2006)

Eamon Ryan: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of farms that produce farmed salmon; the number of farms that produce farmed cod; the number of escape incidents that occurred on salmon farms; the number of farmed salmon that escaped; the number of farmed salmon that died on farms; the diseases that have been diagnosed and reported on salmon...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farms Data (6 Jul 2017)

Michael Creed: Off-farm employment opportunities are crucial to economic sustainability for many farm families. That has always been the case, and I am pleased that the economic recovery has generated additional employment opportunities in many rural areas. On almost half of all farms, either the holder and/or spouse has off-farm employment. Teagasc released the preliminary results of the...

Other Questions: Farm Data (30 May 2018)

Michael Creed: In March this year the Central Statistics Office, CSO, released its preliminary estimate of output, input and income in agriculture and this indicates that aggregate farm income, or operating surplus, increased by 35% to €3.498 billion in 2017. This followed an increase in aggregate farm income of 3.6% in 2016 and 2.3% in 2015. Last week Teagasc released preliminary results of its...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (16 Sep 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: Family Farm Income (FFI), the return from farming for family labour, land and capital, is the principal measure used in the Teagasc National Farm Survey.   The preliminary results for the 2019 National Farm survey issued in June 2020 shows that the average family farm income (FFI) for 2019 was €23,934, a 2% increase on 2018 figures. Following a decline in the average...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farms Data (13 Mar 2019)

Michael Creed: The Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2016, published by the Central Statistics Office, provides insights into the number of farms and farm demographic in Ireland. The FSS also covers animal numbers and crop areas, which is updated in annual CSO surveys. In 2016, there were 137,500 farms in Ireland, of which 137,100 (99.7%) were classified as family farms. More than half of these were located in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (12 Nov 2014)

Simon Coveney: In terms of returns to farmers, Teagasc’s annual National Farm Survey provides analysis of output, inputs and income at farm level, based on a representative sample of farms. Family farm income per farm (FFI) is the principal measure of income used in the National Farm Survey. It is calculated by deducting all farm costs (direct and overhead) from the value of farm gross output....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (30 May 2018)

Michael Creed: In March this year the Central Statistics Office released its Preliminary Estimate of Output, Input and Income in Agriculture and this shows that aggregate farm income, or operating surplus, increased by 35% to €3,498 million in 2017. This followed an increase in aggregate farm income of 3.6% in 2016 and 2.3% in 2015. Last week Teagasc released preliminary results of its...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (14 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Teagasc’s National Farm Survey 2012, which represents 79,000 farms, estimated that: - 38% of farms were economically viable. An economically viable farm is defined as one that has the capacity to pay family labour at the average agricultural wage, and also to provide a 5% return on non-land assets. - 29% of farms were sustainable. A sustainable farm is not economically viable but it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Enterprises (30 Nov 2016)

Michael Creed: Teagasc’s National Farm Survey 2015 report on Farm Viability, which represents just over 84,259 farms, estimated that: - 37% of farms were economically viable.  An economically viable farm is defined as one that has the capacity to pay family labour at the average agricultural wage, and also to provide a 5% return on non-land assets. - 29% of farms were sustainable due to the...

Farm Incomes. (27 Jun 2006) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Smith: The Teagasc national farm survey 2004 indicates that on 78% of holdings, the farmer and-or spouse had some source of off-farm income, be it from employment, pensions or social assistance. The survey indicates that 36% of farmers had an off-farm job while 22% of farmers' spouses had off-farm employment. The presence of off-farm employment was most common among cattle and sheep producers where...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...monitors the needs of the agri-food sector. Along with regularly meeting with representatives of the sector, holding formal consultations and attending public forums, we monitor developments in farm incomes, viability, structures, key commodities, food industry trends and other key economic indicators. My Department prepares and publishes an Annual Review and Outlook (ARO), which...

Written Answers — Farm Incomes: Farm Incomes (30 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Teagasc's National Farm Survey provides estimates of average farm income in Ireland every year. The following table shows these figures for the years in question, 2005 to 2009. Average Family Farm Income by System of Farming € 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 All Farms 22,459 16,680 19,687 16,993 11,968 Full-time farms 40,483 34,486 43,938 37,950 24,214 Part-time farms 11,372 7,899 7,993 7,580...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Farm safety is a major issue and farming continues to be the most dangerous occupation in terms of fatalities in the workplace. There has been an average of 19 fatal incidents per year on Irish farms over the last ten years. There were 16 farm fatalities in 2023, and unfortunately this year to date, there have been two confirmed fatalities on farms. All of these fatalities are tragic...

Written Answers — Farm Accidents: Farm Accidents (4 Oct 2005)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 159 together. I am very concerned about the level of safety on our farms and I support wholeheartedly the work of the Health and Safety Authority which is the State authority charged with overall responsibility for promotion of workplace health and safety. The authority has a proactive inspection and enforcement programme which focuses on high risk...