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Number of livestock in spring of 2018

Published 2.4.2019
  • The number of cattle at start of May 2018 was 882,000, which is one percent less than a year ago.
  • The number of dairy cow was 271,400. The number of dairy cows decreased by one percent during a year.
  • The number of pigs went down from the previous year to about 1.1 million pigs.
  • The poultry included altogether 14.1 million animals on 1,200 farms. There were four million laying hens and 8.8 million broilers.
  • There were about 155.000 sheep on 1,400 farms.

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