No one near Denmark’s farm worker productivity

Grass gives Irish farmers a competitive advantage, but the focus on grassland-based livestock production leaves it languishing in the lower half of the EU-28 farm productivity league table.

According to the latest Agra Europe analysis of European Commission data, the most productive EU member state is more than 30 times more efficient, in terms of productivity per farm worker, than the least productive.

And the data revealed a huge 60-fold variation in productivity in terms of agricultural gross value added per hectare of farmland.