Livestock manure; production, transport and use; key figures, 1950-2013
| Periods | Livestock Cattle Cattle, total (x 1 000) | Livestock Cattle Dairy cows (x 1 000) | Livestock Cattle Other cattle (x 1 000) | Manure production Cattle manure (mld kg) | Mineral excretion Nitrogen excretion (N) Cattle (mln kg) | Mineral excretion Phosphate excretion (P2O5) Cattle (mln kg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013* | 3,999 | 1,553 | 2,446 | 57.4 | 287.2 | 90.3 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||
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This table comprises information about livestock manure production and production of nitrogen and phosphate in manure. It also includes data on excreted nitrogen that evaporates as ammonia and other nitrogen compounds. The use of nitrogen and phosphate in agricultural holdings is calculated from the manure production and the difference between supply and removal of manure on agricultural holdings. The use of manure is related to the available spreading area based on fertilising standards. Developments in the production and use of animal manure can be compared with some key figures on livestock numbers and areas of arable land and grassland.
Data available from: 1950-2013.
Status of the figures:
- Figures up to and including 2012 are final figures.
- Figures for 2013 are provisional figures. Because this table is put to a stop, data wil not be made final.
This table will be continued by the table: Livestock manure; production, transport and use; key figures
Description topics
- Livestock
- Selection of livestock categories from the agricultural census.
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The results of the agricultural census from 2000 to today may have been adjusted since their first publication on Statistics Netherlands’ website; for example with retrospective effect because of the modification of the definition of agricultural holdings, in which companies that manage exclusively natural areas are excluded. The number of animals in the agricultural census may therefore differ from the number of animals in this table, which is based on the original data. The original number of animals are used as the basis of the calculation of manure production and mineral excretion.- Cattle
- Cattle includes bovine animals which are kept for milk production, for maintaining or expanding the dairy herd, or for meat production.
- Cattle, total
- Dairy cows
- Cows of 2 years or older, which have calved at least once and are kept for milk production or breeding; including dry cows (cows, which temporarily give no milk because they are in calf).
- Other cattle
- Male and female young stock, breeding bulls, suckler cows of 2 years or older, veal calves, bulls for meat production of 2 years or older and cows of 2 years or older that are fattened after having calved one or more times.
- Manure production
- Manure production is defined as the amount of manure present in animal housing and in storages outside housing after a few months of storage. It includes feed residuals, cleaning water and spilled drinking water. For cattle, sheep, horses and ponies it includes also the amount of manure produced during grazing.
- Cattle manure
- Mineral excretion
- Excretion of nitrogen and phosphate.
- Nitrogen excretion (N)
- Nitrogen excretion consists of the excreted amount of nitrogen (N-total) without deduction of gaseous losses of NH3, NO, N2O and N2.
- Cattle
- Phosphate excretion (P2O5)
- Excretion of phosphate (P2O5).
- Cattle