Netherlands: Percentage of dairy farms with grazing is 83.9% in 2022

Published 2022년 12월 21일

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In 2012, over 80 organizations, including governments, supermarket chains, banks, animal feed suppliers, and civil society groups, signed the Grazing Covenant, aiming to encourage grazing for cows and maintain the number of dairy farms with grazing at a minimum of 81.2%, as per 2012 statistics. The success of the initiative is measured annually by the percentage of dairy farms that use grazing and the number of lactating cows that spend time outside during the grazing season. This information is tracked by both Statistics Netherlands and ZuivelNL, with the most recent results being published in December of each year.

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In 2012, more than 80 organizations including governments, supermarket chains, banks, animal feed suppliers and various civil society organizations signed the Grazing Covenant. With the Grazing Covenant, they want to structurally encourage grazing to offer cows as much grazing as possible and to keep the number of dairy farms with grazing at least at the 2012 level. That was 81.2% 10 years ago. The level of grazing is expressed in the percentage of dairy farms that use some form of grazing. ZuivelNL determines this percentage on the basis of guaranteed data from dairy companies. The figure for the past grazing season is published annually in December. The Central Bureau of Statistics determines the level of grazing on the basis of the Agricultural Census. Statistics Netherlands calculates the percentage of lactating cows of ...

Source: Agri Holland