Livestock cattle
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Table description
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.
Status of the figures:
New figures for cattle population are provisional when first published. When new data from the Agricultural census become available the provisional figures become definite.
Changes as of 15 February 2021:
The provisional figures for December 2020 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
The provisional figures of April are published in September. The provisional figures of December are published in February of the subsequent year.
The definite figures of April and December are published in April of the subsequent year.
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.