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Spain: Andalusia loses 3,000 dairy cows in just one year

Cow Milk
Spain
Published Nov 3, 2022

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The seriousness of the crisis that dairy cattle farmers are suffering in Andalusia is reflected in the data published in the latest report by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on this sector, which highlights that in the month of In October, the census of dairy cattle in Spain is 790,250 cows, which represents a decrease of 3.9% compared to the same month in the previous year, in which a total of 822,257 cows were registered.

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In Andalusia this decline in milking cows is even greater, which confirms the warnings in this regard from the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organizations -COAG-. Specifically, the loss of cows in Andalusia in just one year is 4.1%. That is to say, from the 57,691 cows that there were in 2021, it has gone to 55,317 that there are today, which represents a loss of 2,374 dairy cows in Andalusia, according to official data. But on the ground this decline seems even greater. Dairy farmers from COAG Andalucía estimate that the loss could reach 3,000 fewer cows in just one year. These data are consistent with the shortage of milk that is already occurring in this region, where farmers have had to decide between closing their farms so as not to continue multiplying debts or selling cows for meat to save costs and maintain the farm. Thus, the accumulated deliveries of raw milk registered between January and August of this year and those of the same period in 2021 confirm the trend ...
Source: Agroclm
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