Europe’s farms offer a great diversity of food products from one region to another, so the average farm size is quite difficult to define, according to an article published by the European Livestock Voice.
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What is known for sure is that family farming has always been a cornerstone of agricultural activity in the European Union. When compared to third countries, European farm sizes remain relatively small. In the EU, in economic terms, smaller farms practice various activities with mixed cropping, mixed livestock, or mixed crop and livestock farming simultaneously. These hybrid systems are part of our cultural heritage, making it hard to precisely define the average size of dairy, beef or poultry farms. Comparison of farm size, financial resources, labour force, or the number of animals per farm should be considered cautiously. Due to mixed systems, statistics on the smallest farm are hard to establish, so public data mostly comes from specialised farms in the top 10 European-producing countries. When considering the type of livestock production on a European map, a limited number of regions can be considered as having an explicit specialization. The average size for livestock farms ...
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