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Dairy Farming

Written question asked by Andrew Jones (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 25 November 2014. It was answered by George Eustice (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 November 2014 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the size of the dairy herd in the (a) Yorkshire and Humber region and (b) UK in each of the last three years.

Answer

Estimates of the size of the dairy breeding herd are provided in the table below. Regional estimates are only calculated every 3 years. The latest available estimates are presented here.

Table 1: Number of dairy breeding cows on farms on 1 June each year (thousands):

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014 (provisional)
UK	1830	1796	1796	1782	1828
Yorkshire & Humber	91			83

Source: Cattle Tracing Scheme/Defra June Survey of Agriculture

Type

Written question

Reference

215568

Session

2014-15

Transferred

Yes

Subjects

Dairy farming

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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