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Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farms Data
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the latest data regarding matters (details supplied). [12627/19]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The table shows the number of farms with at least one suckler cow and numbers of cows per county as of the end of 2018 derived from the Department's Animal Movement and Identification (AIM) database.
| Counties | Farms | Suckler Cows |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 750 | 15,013 |
| Cavan | 3,115 | 43,625 |
| Clare | 4,297 | 67,299 |
| Cork | 5,250 | 69,482 |
| Donegal | 3,747 | 38,607 |
| Dublin | 198 | 3,552 |
| Galway | 7,430 | 96,959 |
| Kerry | 3,592 | 43,227 |
| Kildare | 903 | 16,995 |
| Kilkenny | 1,572 | 30,966 |
| Laois | 1,521 | 32,380 |
| Leitrim | 2,445 | 25,591 |
| Limerick | 2,469 | 32,493 |
| Longford | 1,535 | 24,591 |
| Louth | 618 | 11,117 |
| Mayo | 6,480 | 71,276 |
| Meath | 1,751 | 31,254 |
| Monaghan | 2,327 | 30,325 |
| Offaly | 1,536 | 29,640 |
| Roscommon | 3,545 | 50,298 |
| Sligo | 2,474 | 29,316 |
| Tipperary | 3,061 | 52,594 |
| Waterford | 1,027 | 18,959 |
| Westmeath | 1,745 | 33,748 |
| Wexford | 1,602 | 30,699 |
| Wicklow | 1,079 | 21,391 |
| Totals | 66,069 | 951,397 |
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