The total number of cows milk recording in 2022 has increased by 11.4% year to date when compared with the same period in 2021. The total number of cows recorded in 2022 now stands at over 1 million animals (1,052,448).

As can be seen from the below tables, there was some 9,000 herds milk recording as of August 19th 2022. This is up by 1,125 when compared with the same period in 2021. This represents an increase in the number of herds milk recording of 14.29% year over year.

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