Bankruptcies in livestock farming have altered the survival rates for those in the business.

In the last three years, the "Agriculture" fund has done quite a balancing act in supporting livestock farmers, where the tied subsidy under the linked support is 100 percent of the European funds. However, the problem is that somewhere the rates for raising an animal have increased, elsewhere they have decreased, but the biggest problem is that in just two years – from 2023 to 2025 – there have been quite a few failed farms, and this is evident from the number of supported ones this year. The statistics clearly reveal the trends, and it is high time for the state administration to notice them and try to stop this thinning of the ranks, because the industry has long signaled and it is time for someone to hear it. We recall that as early as 2023, the number of animals covered by the so-called modulation was changed. For cattle and buffalo, the modulation became for the first 150 animals, and for small ruminants it is over 300 animals. Then an upper age limit was introduced for the ...