01 - CROP AND ANIMAL PRODUCTION, HUNTING AND RELATED SERVICE ACTIVITIES Companies in Ireland
Approximately 4,783 real businesses classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Ireland, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 4,783 real businesses classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities operate in Ireland. Covers companies officially classified under SIC 2007 code 01 (Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities), part of Ireland's SIC 2007 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Ireland.
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 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities Companies in Ireland
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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 9 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
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies are classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Ireland?
Approximately 4,783 businesses are classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Ireland.
What does SIC 2007 code 01 cover?
01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities is the official name for this activity under Ireland's SIC 2007 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector.
How is this different from the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing category?
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing is the top-level sector; SIC 2007 code 01 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.
What ownership information is available for these companies?
The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Ireland, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector overview for the general national framework.
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