Dairy Farming

Written question asked by Lord Jones (Labour) on Tuesday, 17 March 2020, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 March 2020. It was answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Conservative) on Tuesday, 17 March 2020 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their current estimate of the size of the UK dairy herd.

The UK dairy herd was 1.87 million head as at 1 June 2019. Dairy herd is defined as female dairy cows aged two years and over with offspring.

(Source: Cattle Tracing System (CTS) in England, Wales and Scotland and the equivalent APHIS system in Northern Ireland)

Type

Written question

Reference

HL2273

Session

2019-21

Subjects

Cattle

Dairy farming

Contains statistics

Yes

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