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Number of cattle and pigs 1 December 2018

Published 15.2.2019
  • The number of cattle at start of December was 859,380.  The number of dairy cows was 263,640.
  • The number of suckler cows increased, whereas that cows, heifers, bulls and calves decreased.
  • The number of pigs decreased from the previous year to about 1 million pigs.
  • The number of sows decreased by 4% from previous year.

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