{
  "query": {
    "country": "IE",
    "product": "milk"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per 100 kg",
    "value": 40.79,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-09-01",
    "to": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026-09"
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-14T21:28:57.380Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "eu-farm-prices",
    "name": "Agri-food data portal: agricultural market prices (cereals, beef, pigmeat, sheepmeat, poultry, eggs, raw milk, dairy, olive oil, fruit and vegetables)",
    "publisher": "European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (Agri-food data portal)",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), under the Commission's reuse policy (Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents): reuse is allowed, provided appropriate credit is given and changes are indicated",
    "licence_url": "https://commission.europa.eu/legal-notice_en",
    "attribution": "Source: European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, Agri-food data portal (https://agridata.ec.europa.eu), © European Union, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://commission.europa.eu/legal-notice_en). Prices are passed on as published by the Member States; changes by ProofPrice: the average of several markets where no national average is published, percentage changes, prices per kilogram, and the 12-month figures.",
    "url": "https://agridata.ec.europa.eu/extensions/DataPortal/agricultural_markets.html"
  },
  "method": "The European Commission's Agri-food data portal publishes the prices Member States report for each week (raw milk: month), product and stage of the supply chain. ProofPrice returns the latest published figure for the country and product, unchanged where the portal gives a national figure; where it gives only several markets we show their simple average. With it come the previous period, the same period a year earlier, the last 12 months and the other series the portal holds. No range is calculated: the portal gives one price per cell and does not say how many trades are behind it.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Ireland the latest published price for raw cow's milk was €40.79 per 100 kg (€0.408 per kg) for September 2026. That is unchanged from the previous month and 21.3% lower than a year earlier. Official average published by European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (Agri-food data portal) for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "Ireland",
    "product": {
      "key": "milk",
      "name": "raw cow's milk",
      "group": "Milk and dairy (per 100 kg)",
      "series": {
        "id": "Raw milk",
        "label": "raw cow's milk",
        "chosen_by": "only series"
      }
    },
    "published_unit": "per 100 kg",
    "price_per_kg": 0.4079,
    "reference": {
      "kind": "month",
      "from": "2026-09-01",
      "to": "2026-09-30"
    },
    "basis": {
      "markets": {
        "mode": "none",
        "count": 0,
        "names": []
      },
      "quotes_averaged": 1
    },
    "data_age": {
      "days_old": 14,
      "level": "current",
      "note": "This is the latest month the portal holds for this series."
    },
    "previous_period": {
      "begin": "2026-08-01",
      "end": "2026-08-31",
      "value": 40.79,
      "change_percent": 0
    },
    "year_earlier": {
      "begin": "2025-09-01",
      "end": "2025-09-30",
      "value": 51.86,
      "change_percent": -21.3
    },
    "last_12_months": {
      "from": "2025-09-01",
      "to": "2026-09-30",
      "periods": 13,
      "min": 39.72,
      "max": 51.86,
      "average": 43.09,
      "same_basis_throughout": true,
      "vs_average_percent": -5.3
    },
    "recent_series": [
      {
        "from": "2025-10-01",
        "to": "2025-10-31",
        "value": 49.63
      },
      {
        "from": "2025-11-01",
        "to": "2025-11-30",
        "value": 46.52
      },
      {
        "from": "2025-12-01",
        "to": "2025-12-31",
        "value": 43.8
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-01-01",
        "to": "2026-01-31",
        "value": 43.41
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-02-01",
        "to": "2026-02-28",
        "value": 42.63
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-03-01",
        "to": "2026-03-31",
        "value": 39.82
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-04-01",
        "to": "2026-04-30",
        "value": 39.72
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-05-01",
        "to": "2026-05-31",
        "value": 39.72
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-06-01",
        "to": "2026-06-30",
        "value": 40.69
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-07-01",
        "to": "2026-07-31",
        "value": 40.79
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-08-01",
        "to": "2026-08-31",
        "value": 40.79
      },
      {
        "from": "2026-09-01",
        "to": "2026-09-30",
        "value": 40.79
      }
    ],
    "portal_api_url": "https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/agrifood/api/rawMilk/prices?memberStateCodes=IE&products=Raw%20milk&beginDate=11/07/2025&endDate=14/10/2026"
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_8b6cd8fd6780fa307d7a",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T21:28:57.381Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  }
}