{"id":447435,"date":"2026-03-12T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/12\/agricoltura-prezzi-dei-prodotti-ue-giu-dell19-per-cento-nel-quarto-trimestre-2025-su-base-annua\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:17:33","slug":"agriculture-eu-product-prices-fall-by-1-9-per-cent-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2025-compared-to-the-previous-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/12\/agriculture-eu-product-prices-fall-by-1-9-per-cent-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2025-compared-to-the-previous-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture: EU product prices fall by 1.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the previous year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In the fourth quarter of 2025<\/strong>, the average price of agricultural products<\/strong> in the European Union fell by 1.9 per cent<\/strong> compared to the same period in 2024. This was announced today (12 March) by Eurostat<\/strong>, the EU’s statistical office, in a  report <\/a>on agriculture that takes into account the value of the so-called “output price”, i.e., the price at which agricultural producers sell their goods to wholesalers or distributors, from whom end consumers <\/span>purchase them. <\/p>\n

The decline in prices recorded in the last three months of last year follows three consecutive increases in the previous quarters<\/strong>: +2.6 per cent year-on-year in the January\u2013March 2025 period, +5.89 per cent in the April\u2013June period, and +4.43 per cent in the July\u2013September period<\/strong>. Among the most widely consumed products that experienced the largest price decreases were milk (-4.1 per cent)<\/strong> and cereals (-8.9 per cent)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Turning to the state-by-state analysis, as many as 15 EU countries<\/strong> benefited from price reductions<\/strong> in primary sector production. The top three are Belgium (down 12.9 per cent<\/strong> compared to the last quarter of 2024), Lithuania (down 8.2 per cent)<\/strong>, and Germany (down 6 per cent)<\/strong>. In the other 12 Member States, however, average prices rose<\/strong>, with peaks recorded in Ireland (+8.2 per cent), Slovenia (+5.6 per cent), and Malta (+4.2 per cent)<\/strong>. In Italy, the trend is downward, although the change is less than one percentage point<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The Eurostat report also analyses trends in the prices of production inputs<\/strong>, i.e. the goods and services that farmers currently use for their activities. Unlike outputs, the cost of production factors in the last three months of 2025 remained substantially unchanged<\/strong> compared to the same period in 2024, in line with a trend that was “relatively stable” throughout last year. More specifically, individual inputs showed different dynamics. The price of fertilisers<\/strong> and soil improvers<\/strong>, for example, rose by 7.9 per cent<\/strong>, while the price of feed<\/strong> and energy<\/strong> fell by 2.7<\/strong> and 1.7 per cent<\/strong> respectively. <\/p>\n

The figures for the various Member States are equally varied. Belgium<\/strong> remains among the top three countries with the largest cost declines (-2.1 per cent<\/strong> compared to the fourth quarter of 2024), together with Cyprus<\/strong> (-2.6 per cent<\/strong>) and Sweden<\/strong> (-2 per cent<\/strong>). Conversely, the most significant increases were recorded in Lithuania<\/strong> (+4.2 per cent<\/strong>), Ireland<\/strong> (+3.3 per cent) and Romania<\/strong> (+2.5 per cent). Italy<\/strong> is also among the countries where agricultural production factors have increased<\/strong>, by around 1 per cent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat reports the first decrease after three consecutive quarters of price increases. The cost of production factors remains stable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":447317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709],"tags":[26180,26267,25855,25801,33345,26278,27194,31425,26869,32810,27853,31100,29216,31284,28111,26559],"class_list":["post-447435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","tag-agriculture-en","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-calo-dei-prezzi","tag-cereali-en","tag-cipro-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-irlanda-en","tag-latte","tag-lithuania-en","tag-malta-in-2","tag-prices-en","tag-romania-en","tag-slovenia-en","tag-swedenat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447436,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447435\/revisions\/447436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}