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Friday, 6 September 2019

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Industry

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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1460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler cows by county in tabular form. [36834/19]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The definition of suckler cows used for statistical purposes is beef cows who have calved at least once in their lifetime. The table below shows the number of suckler cows per county at the end of 2018:

2018

CountySucklers
Carlow15,013
Cavan43,625
Clare67,299
Cork69,482
Donegal38,607
Dublin3,552
Galway96,959
Kerry43,227
Kildare16,995
Kilkenny30,966
Laois32,380
Leitrim25,591
Limerick32,493
Longford24,591
Louth11,117
Mayo71,276
Meath31,254
Monaghan30,325
Offaly29,640
Roscommon50,298
Sligo29,316
Tipperary52,594
Waterford18,959
Westmeath33,748
Wexford30,699
Wicklow21,391
Total951,397

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