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Number of livestock in spring of 2017

Published 16.4.2018
  • The number of cattle at start of May 2017 was 893,000, which is two percent less than a year ago.
  • The number of dairy cow was 275,000. The number of dairy cows decreased by three percent during a year.
  • The number of pigs went down from the previous year to about 1.14 million pigs.
  • The poultry included altogether 13.1 million animals on 1,280 farms. There were 3.7 million laying hens and 8 million broilers.
  • There were about 156.000 sheep on 1,400 farms.

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