September farm prices: inputs up 6.9%, outputs down 0.4%
Provisional ELSTAT figures show higher production-input prices and a small annual decline in the prices at which farmers sell their products.
Prices paid by producers for goods and services used in agricultural and livestock production rose 6.9% in September 2026 compared with the same month in 2025. Over the same period, the overall index of prices received by producers for their products, excluding subsidies, fell 0.4%. These are provisional figures published by ELSTAT on 13 November.
Prices of consumable production inputs rose 8.8%, driven principally by energy and lubricants. Prices of goods contributing to capital formation increased 1.4%. Compared with August 2026, the overall input-price index rose 0.9%.
For outputs, crop-production prices fell 0.7% and animal-production prices rose 2.2% year on year. Fruit prices declined 4.2% and olive-oil prices 7.7%, while vegetable and horticultural-product prices increased 5.1%. The overall output-price index fell 0.6% from the previous month.
These indices concern prices in producers’ transactions. They do not measure production volumes, total farm income or supermarket shelf prices. Inputs and outputs have different composition and weights; the difference between their changes is not automatically a farm’s percentage loss of profit.
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