Written answers
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Department of Agriculture and Food
Bovine Herds
11:00 am
John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 492: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the extent to which the numbers of the bovine herds in County Sligo have increased or decreased in the past ten years on a yearly basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11287/07]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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According to ERAD testing statistics, the number of active bovine herds in Co Sligo for each of the last ten years is as follows:
| Year | No. of bovine herds in County Sligo |
| 1997 | 4,828 |
| 1998 | 4,706 |
| 1999 | 4,547 |
| 2000 | 4,390 |
| 2001 | 4,253 |
| 2002 | 4,100 |
| 2003 | 4,063 |
| 2004 | 4,005 |
| 2005 | 3,999 |
| 2006 | 3,922 |
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