Going bigger! Big scale dairy farming a main trend in China

21-06-2021 | |
The Terminal. There are 4 exact same designed farms for 15,000 cows. The milking parlour building has 4 80 places rotaries, it s called  The Terminal  as it in many ways reminds people of an airport building. Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
The Terminal. There are 4 exact same designed farms for 15,000 cows. The milking parlour building has 4 80 places rotaries, it s called The Terminal as it in many ways reminds people of an airport building. Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
China’s dairy farming industry has transformed over the last 2 decades and today the main trend is big scale farming. In 2019 the annual milk production in China was 32 billion kg and according to the ‘China Dairy Industry Statistics 2020’ the 25 largest farming companies of milk delivered 9,4 billion kg of the country’s production or contributed 29%. These farming companies had 1,7 million dairy cattle or on average nearly 68 thousand animals each. The Terminal. There are 4


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