EU agricultural prices under pressure: revenues collapse (-5.8%), production costs increase (+4.7%)
European farms are facing an increasingly difficult situation: on the one hand, the prices received for products sold continue to decline, on the other, the costs required to produce them are rising.
The decline in producer prices affected 20 European Union countries. The most significant decreases were recorded in Denmark (-17.2%), Ireland (-16.2%), Latvia and Estonia (both -14.5%), and Luxembourg and Lithuania (both -14.2%). Only a few countries bucked the trend, with the most significant increases observed in Croatia and Malta (+3.9% each) and Cyprus (+3.5%).
On the cost front, however, increases involved all Member States without exception. The largest increases were recorded in Lithuania (+16.4%), Romania (+11.7%), and Latvia (+9.7%), while the smallest increases occurred in Hungary and Portugal (+1.2% each) and Malta (+1.5%).
Among the main agricultural products, the collapse in the price of milk, which decreased by -16.6% compared to the second quarter of 2025, weighed most heavily on the overall figure, while cereals recorded a decline of -5.6%.
On the production factors side, however, the sharp increases in energy and lubricants prices, up 22%, and in fertilizers and soil conditioners, up 13.4%, stand out, with a trend that continues to compress the economic margins of European farmers.
