Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020
1548. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the numbers in the national dairy herd have altered in the past ten years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33812/20]
View answerData on the national herd are published twice yearly by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on the basis of two categories; dairy and other cows. The following table details the number of dairy cows in Ireland using final data extracted from the CSO June Livestock Survey. Figures presented have been rounded to the nearest decimal point.
|
Year |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
|
(000 Head) Dairy Cows* |
1,071 |
1,117 |
1,141 |
1,163 |
1,226 |
1,296 |
1,398 |
1,433 |
1,481 |
1,505 |
*Dairy cows are those kept principally to produce milk for human consumption.
Provisional figures for the June 2020 Livestock Survey estimate the dairy cow numbers at 1,568 (000 Head) representing a 4.2% increase over 2019.
