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Southern Europe: Dairy Farm Structure
This page summarizes the structure of Dairy Farms, with particular reference to the number of dairy cows, the number of farms, the average size of available farmland and other relevant information.Data is available on all the regions of individual EU countries; by filling out the form in the yellow box it is possible to compare one’s own Dairy Farm with other European Dairy Farms.





SOUTHERN EUROPE - Summary | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Milk delivered (‘000 Tons) | 19.622 | 20.378 | 20.701 | 21.118 | 21.697 | 21.988 | 22.150 | 22.976 | 23.496 | 23.092 |
% change from previous year | +3,9% | +1,6% | +2,0% | +2,7% | +1,3% | +0,7% | +3,7% | +2,3% | -1,7% | |
Average farmgate milk price (€ / 100 Kg) | 38,08 | 38,61 | 32,13 | 30,02 | 35,96 | 34,93 | 36,06 | 34,46 | 36,41 | 50,09 |
% change from previous year | +1,4% | -16,8% | -6,6% | +19,8% | -2,9% | +3,2% | -4,4% | +5,6% | +37,6% | |
Milk produced (‘000 Tonnes) | 20.502 | 21.598 | 21.441 | 21.864 | 22.277 | 22.538 | 22.870 | 23.316 | 23.870 | |
% change from previous year | +5,3% | -0,7% | +2,0% | +1,9% | +1,2% | +1,5% | +2,0% | +2,4% | ||
Nr. of dairy cows ('000) | 3.310 | 3.324 | 3.288 | 3.275 | 3.236 | 3.127 | 3.050 | 3.042 | 3.011 | |
% change from previous year | +0,4% | -1,1% | -0,4% | -1,2% | -3,4% | -2,5% | -0,2% | -1,0% | ||
Estimated average production (quintals per cow) | 61,9 | 65,0 | 65,2 | 66,8 | 68,8 | 72,1 | 75,0 | 76,6 | 79,3 | |
% change from previous year | +4,9% | +0,4% | +2,4% | +3,1% | +4,7% | +4,0% | +2,2% | +3,4% | ||
Nr. of dairy farms | 71.210 | 81.580 | ||||||||
% change from previous census | +14,6% | |||||||||
Source: Milk delivered: Nr. of dairy cows: Eurostat (dataset: agr_r_animal) Milk produced: Eurostat (dataset: agr_r_milkpr) Nr. of dairy farms: Eurostat (dataset: ef_olsaareg until 2013, ef_lsk_bovine from 2016) The average farmgate milk price is obtained by weighing, for each dell'Europa del SUD, the average farmgate milk price (source: MMO) against the quantities of milk delivered (source: Eurostat) The average production per cow is obtained by dividing the tonnes of milk produced by the number of dairy cows |
SOUTHERN EUROPE - Average number of dairy cows per Dairy Farm |
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Source: Eurostat (dataset: ef_olsaareg until 2013, ef_lsk_bovine from 2016) |
The agricultural areas depicted in the graph represent at least 70% of the milk produced in the in Europa del SUD
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Source: Eurostat (dataset: ef_olsaareg until 2013, ef_lsk_bovine from 2016) |
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Source: Eurostat (dataset: ef_olsaareg until 2013, ef_lsk_bovine from 2016) |
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