Livestock on agricultural holdings with a Standard Ouptut >= 3000 euro, grazing livestock and housed animals at 1 April and 1 December
Livestock cattle, position of dairy cattle and cattle for fattening according to Agricultural Census and Earmark registration
Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region
The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.
The Dutch dairy goat herd keeps growing. As of this year, the herd size stands at 476 thousand, i.e. 4 percent more than last year.
The number of pig-producing farms has decreased by 12.0 percent from over 4 thousand in 2019 to 3.6 thousand in 2020.
In 2019, nitrogen excretion in animal manure decreased by 2.6 percent on the previous year, to 490 million kg. This is below the nitrogen oxides emission ceiling that has been imposed on Dutch livestock farmers by the European Union.
The number of goats in the Netherlands has increased this year.
The share of grazing cattle increased again last year, with 71 percent of the dairy herd grazing outdoors against 65 percent in 2016.
On 1 April 2019, the national bovine herd of the Netherlands stood at nearly 3.8 million.
In 2018, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were 2 percent lower than one year previously. This is related to less coal being used for electricity production. The emission intensity of the Dutch economy is declining.
The size of the organic farming sector increased again in 2018.
Phosphate production in livestock manure declined further in 2018
Agricultural income per annual work unit has declined in 2018; by nearly 11 percent relative to 2017.
On 1 April 2018, there were nearly 4 million head of cattle in the Netherlands, a decline of over 178 thousand (4 percent) on one year previously.
Dairy sector turnover has risen by 30 percent on average over the past three quarters
Organic farming has grown in the past ten years.
Motor vehicles by age, type of fuel, model, weight of the vehicle and by province of residence and age of the owner
Manure production, nitrogen and phosphate in manure, nitrogen losses, manure exports, manure processing, manure use
Number of enterprises by size (8 classes) and legal form (2 classes) Economic activities in 1252 sections/divisions/groups/classes (NCEA 2008)
Number of local units Economic activity (SIC 2008) and regions
Number of holdings, crops, cattle and workers by type of holding (dsus) and regions