Livestock cattle, 2008 - 2020
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Table explanation
This table provides information about the number of cattle on Dutch agricultural holdings. In addition to numbers, cattle are broken down by: cattle kept for the production of milk and cattle for fattening. The cattle population is counted on 1 April and 1 December.
Data available from: 1 December 2008 to 1 December 2020.
Status of the figures:
The numbers are final.
Changes as of April 30, 2021:
None, this table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
This table is followed by Livestock on agricultural holdings: reference date 1 April and 1 December, see the links in section 3.
Description topics
- Cattle, total
- For 1 April counts: total of the number of cattle in the Netherlands on agricultural holdings, of 3,000 Euro SO or more.
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The 1 December counts are based on the ear tag registration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. - Young cattle for milk
- Cattle kept for the production of milk or for breeding.
- Young cattle for milk, total
- Young cattle for milk, < 1 year, female
- Young cattle for dairy farming, aged less than 1 year, female.
- Young cattle for milk, < 1 year, male
- Young cattle for dairy farming, aged less than 1 year, male.
- Young cattle for milk, 1-2 years, female
- Young cattle for dairy farming, aged between 1 and 2 years, female.
- Young cattle for milk, 1-2 years, male
- Young cattle for dairy farming, aged between 1 and 2 years, male.
- Young cattle for milk, >= 2 yrs, female
- Young cattle for dairy farming, aged 2 years or older, female (never calved).
- Calves for fattening
- Calves for the production of white meat and rosé meat (aged less than 1 year).
- Calves for fattening, total
- Calves for rosé meat (< 1 yr)
- Calves for fattening of the production of rosé meat (aged less than 1 year).
- Calves for white meat (< 1 yr)
- Calves for fattening of the production of white meat (aged less than 1 year).
- Young cattle for fattening
- Young cattle for fattening, total
- Young cattle kept for fattening.
- Young cattle for fattening,<1 yr, female
- Young cattle for fattening, aged less than 1 year, female.
- Young cattle for fattening, < 1 yr, male
- Young cattle for fattening (including beef), aged less than 1 year, male.
- Young cattle for fattening,1-2 yr,female
- Young cattle for fattening, aged between 1 and 2 years, female.
- Young cattle for fattening, 1-2 yr, male
- Young cattle for fattening, aged between 1 and 2 years, male.
- Young cattle for fattening>= 2 yr,female
- Young cattle for fattening, aged 2 years or older, female (never calved).
- Dairy cows (>= 2 years)
- Female bovine animals aged 2 years or older, that have calved at least once, and are kept for the production of milk or for breeding; includes dry cows (cows that temporarily do not produce milk because they are in calf).
- Other cows
- Cows of 2 years and older, like cull cows that are fattened for slaughtering, and suckling cows.
- Other cows, total
- From 2013 the separate observation of underlying categories is discontinued; only the total remains available.
- Cows for fattening (>= 2 years)
- Cows aged 2 years or older, that are fattened after having calved at least once; includes cull dairy cows (cows taken out of milk production to be slaughtered).
- Suckling cows (>= 2 years)
- Suckling cows aged 2 years or older (calved at least once).
Suckling cows are cows bred for fattening, whose nursing calvesare allowed to suckle and that therefore do not produce milk.
- Bulls (>= 2 years)
- Bulls of 2 years and older kept for breeding or for slaughtering.
- Bulls (>= 2 years), total
- From 2013 the separate observation of underlying categories is discontinued; only the total remains available.
- Bulls for breeding (>= 2 years)
- Bulls for breeding aged 2 years or older.
- Bulls for fattening (>= 2 years)
- Bulls for fattening aged 2 years or older.