Ireland AGRICULTURE Companies
Approximately 6,633 real businesses classified under Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Ireland, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 6,633 real businesses operate in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector across Ireland. Agriculture looks like the simplest sector to verify — a farm, a name, a plot of land. It rarely is. Ownership here often runs through family trusts, cooperatives, and, in many jurisdictions, foreign-land-ownership restrictions that route control through a domestic holding entity instead of the operator you would expect. The sector spans crop and livestock farms, forestry and logging operators, and commercial fisheries and aquaculture producers feeding raw commodities into much longer supply chains. For due diligence, the real exposure is not the farm gate — it is the subsidy filings, land-registry disclosures, and supply-chain traceability rules sitting on top of it.
41 companies in this sector are indexed on Zavia so far, part of a continually growing dataset.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Ireland follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full Ireland beneficial ownership overviewTop Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Companies in Ireland
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code A in Ireland, as of the last reconciliation.
Section A is 1% of the Ireland register by entity count and its 15th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Agriculture in Ireland is structurally shaped by a specific collaborative-farming vehicle: the Registered Farm Partnership (RFP), where up to ten farmers pool resources — land, labour, facilities, management — under a Teagasc-templated agreement. Ownership of land and entitlements doesn’t actually change when a farm enters an RFP: the owner licenses the land and entitlements into the partnership for its use, rather than transferring title, so a partnership’s own filing doesn’t tell the whole ownership story. Around 4,694 active RFPs were on the register as of November 2024.
The structure carries real financial incentives that explain why farmers choose it: partnership profit-sharing lets each partner use their own lower income-tax band up to the current €42,000 upper limit, and a young trained farmer inside an RFP can access TAMS grant funding at a 60% rate up to a €160,000 ceiling, compared to 40% and a €90,000 ceiling for a sole trader. For verification, an Irish farm operating as an RFP needs checking on two levels: the partnership’s own registration, and the underlying land-licensing arrangement with the actual title-holder, since the two aren’t the same thing.
What changed recently
Sector-specific developments that change how this data is used. Each carries a verification date so it can be refreshed on a schedule.
The EU deforestation rules apply from 30 December 2026
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators placing cattle, wood, cocoa, coffee, palm oil or soya on the EU market to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free. After two postponements — originally due 30 December 2024, then pushed to 30 December 2025 — the Council of the EU adopted a further revision in December 2025 moving the application date for all operators to 30 December 2026, with an additional six-month allowance for micro and small operators to 30 June 2027. For Ireland operators and exporters supplying the EU market, this is now the operative compliance deadline.
Source: Council of the EU, 18 December 2025 · Last verified 14 October 2026.
Ireland Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section A entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section A, Ireland. 1 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Ireland agriculture, forestry and fishing ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
EUDR supply-chain due diligence
Proving an Irish wood, soy-feed or cattle supplier is who they claim to be, upstream of the first EU-bound trader, before the December 2026 deadline. Many Irish farms operate through a Registered Farm Partnership (RFP), where land ownership stays with the individual owner licensing it into the partnership rather than transferring.
Registered Farm Partnership (RFP) structure check
Around 4,694 active Registered Farm Partnerships were on Ireland’s register as of November 2024 — land and entitlements are licensed into, not owned by, the partnership, so verifying who actually controls a partnership farm means checking the underlying licensor as well as the partnership itself.
TAMS grant-eligibility exposure
A young trained farmer inside a Registered Farm Partnership can access TAMS grant funding at 60% (up to a €160,000 ceiling), versus 40% and a €90,000 ceiling for a sole trader — a real, checkable financial incentive that shapes why a given farm chose its structure.
Sub-sectors within Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Ireland company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies are registered in Ireland?
Approximately 6,633 real businesses operate under Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Ireland.
What does the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector include in Ireland?
Agriculture looks like the simplest sector to verify — a farm, a name, a plot of land. It rarely is. Ownership here often runs through family trusts, cooperatives, and, in many jurisdictions, foreign-land-ownership restrictions that route control through a domestic holding entity instead of the operator you would expect. The sector spans crop and livestock farms, forestry and logging operators, and commercial fisheries and aquaculture producers feeding raw commodities into much longer supply chains. For due diligence, the real exposure is not the farm gate — it is the subsidy filings, land-registry disclosures, and supply-chain traceability rules sitting on top of it.
How is company ownership disclosed for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Ireland?
The same national framework applies here as for every other sector in Ireland — there is no sector-specific beneficial-ownership regime for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
Can I see all industries present in Ireland?
Yes — the Ireland company directory lists every industry with recorded companies for that jurisdiction, alongside the full beneficial-ownership overview for Ireland.
Can I see Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in other countries?
Yes — the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector directory lists every country with recorded Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies on Zavia.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Ireland over time?
A directory listing is a snapshot, not a live feed. Zavia's monitoring API tracks changes to registered shareholders, officers, and group structure for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Ireland going forward, flagging updates as they are filed instead of requiring a manual recheck.
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