Agri-Business
The number of cattle slaughtered declined by 19.1% in the first two months of 2026, new figures from the CSO show.
Beef
The number of cattle slaughtered in Ireland in January 2026 was down by 18.4% when compared to the same month of 2025.
Sheep
There was an annual decrease of 17.2% in the number of sheep slaughtered in 2025, figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.
The number of cattle slaughtered between January and November 2025 fell by 12% when compared with the same period in 2024.
Cattle slaughterings were down by 20.4% last month when compared with September 2024, new figures...
CSO figures show cattle slaughterings fell by 24.5% to 119,000 head last month when compared with figures for July 2024.
The number of cattle slaughtered in May 2025 was 10.6% lower than for the same month of 2024, according to data from the CSO.
The number of sheep slaughtered in Ireland in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025 stood at 580,200, according to the CSO.
The number of sheep slaughtered in Ireland in January was recorded at 187,800, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The number of sheep slaughterings in Ireland in 2024 stood over 2.8 million head, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The number of sheep slaughtered in November stood at 191,000 head, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The number of cattle slaughtered in Ireland rose by 2.4% between January to October 2024, according to latest figures from the CSO.
The number of cattle slaughtered in July 2024 was 8.5% higher than July 2023, according to livestock slaughtering data released by the CSO.
The number of cattle slaughtered in Ireland rose by a modest 0.6% in the first six months of 2024 according to latest CSO figures.
New figures from the CSO show that cattle slaughterings over the 12 months to April 2024 are estimated to be almost 638,000 head.
The number of cattle slaughtered in Ireland rose by 1.7% in the first quarter of 2024 according to latest figures from the CSO.
The number of cattle slaughtered in January increased by 7.9% when compared with the same month in 2023, the CSO said.
The number of cattle slaughtered between January and October 2023 fell by 2.8% to more than 1.5 million head according to the CSO.
Beef News
Pig slaughterings between January and August 2023 were down by 9.7% when compared to the same period last year, the CSO said.
The number of cattle slaughtered in the first six months of 2023 fell, year on year, by 24,331 head or 2.6%, according to a new CSO report.
The number of cattle slaughterings in March was almost 5% lower than the same month last year, according to the CSO.
The number of sheep slaughtered in January increased by 10.8% compared to the same month in 2022, according to the CSO.
The number of cattle slaughterings increased by 6.7% between January and December last year compared to the same period in 2021, the CSO said
