Netherlands: The same number of dairy cows, more young stock than in 2021

Published 2022년 11월 30일

Tridge summary

The 2022 Agricultural Census in the Netherlands reveals that the number of dairy cows remains steady at 1.57 million, with a 1.6% increase in young stock. Dairy farms occupy 45% of the country's agricultural land, with an average of 110 dairy cows and 58 young female cattle per farm. The cattle herd has remained stable, but there has been a decrease in the number of veal calves. The pig population has reached its lowest in almost twenty years, with a 45% decrease in farms, due to government schemes. The number of dairy goats has seen a slight increase, while the number of chickens has decreased by 2.3%.
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Original content

Just like last year, the number of dairy cows in the Netherlands is 1.57 million. However, there is 1.6% more young stock on dairy farms, a total of 982,000 animals. This is evident from provisional figures from the 2022 Agricultural Census of Statistics Netherlands. In 2021 there were 1,571,341 dairy cows in the Netherlands, on 1 April 2022 1,570,653, a minimal decrease of 688 animals. Dairy farms use 45% of the Dutch agricultural land. In 2022, a dairy farm will have an average of 60 hectares of cultivated land, 12 hectares more than ten years ago. More cows were also kept. This year, a dairy farm had an average of 110 dairy cows and 58 young female cattle, in 2012 there were 83 and 57 respectively. In 2022, a dairy farm had an average of 1.84 dairy cows and 0.97 female young cattle per hectare of cultivated land. In 2012 this was 1.72 and 1.19 respectively. Incidentally, there were fewer dairy cows in that year, namely 1.48 million. Since 2000, 2016 is the year with the most ...

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