Declaration of Closing Stocks on the National Fertiliser Database
- Published on: 16 September 2025
- Last updated on: 26 September 2025
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, has today confirmed that the facility for declaring Closing Stock of fertiliser on the National Fertiliser Database for 2025 is now available online.
Minister Heydon stated:
“I would like to commend the farming sector, merchants and the fertiliser industry for their ongoing active engagement with the National Fertiliser Database (NFD). There are now just over 127,000 Professional Fertiliser End Users and 359 Fertiliser Economic Operators registered on the NFD, and the system has captured more than half a million transactions in the last year. As in previous years, I strongly encourage fertiliser economic operators and fertiliser end users to log on to myagfood.ie and complete their closing stock return.”
From today, farmers and other Professional Fertiliser end Users and Fertiliser Economic Operators can now declare closing stock of fertiliser held on their farms and premises. Farms and premises that have no stock on hand must also make this declaration.
Highlighting the importance of accurately declaring fertiliser closing stock, the Minister added:
“The final date for submission of closing stock of fertiliser on farms and premises is Wednesday, 15 October 2025. Declaration of closing stock is a straightforward process whereby farmers, or their agents, can log on to myagfood.ie. In cases where there are no stocks of fertiliser on hand, it is simply a matter of ticking a box to declare a nil stock return. Where there is fertiliser present, the declaration should include the type of fertiliser and the quantities being held.”