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The reduction of the cow herd continues in Ukraine, primarily due to household farms. Growth in the cattle population at agricultural enterprises slowed down in November compared to October 2025, amidst falling raw milk prices and slowing demand for finished products, reports Georghii Kukhaleishvili, analyst at the Association of Milk Producers (AMP).

For two years the Advisory Center of the Association of Milk Producers has been working closely with a team of dairy experts from Michigan State University. Every month Ukrainian advisors together with American colleagues and guest lecturers from other countries discuss the challenges of modern dairy production, deepen their knowledge and exchange experiences. In «Mi...

Many farmers keep animals in summer camps, and many do so in winter. Exercise for cows. Fresh air. Reduced care costs? Is it really that simple? Year-round effective animal housing in pens without a concrete surface is only possible with rainfall levels <200 mm/year. Otherwise, the animals will simply drown in mud baths!...

The number of cattle in Ukraine decreased by 200.2 thousand heads, which is 8% less compared to last year's period and 3% less compared to September 1 of the current year. The number of animals continues to decrease due to the negative consequences of the war for the livestock industry of Ukraine, — reports the analyst of&n...

The population of cattle and cows in Ukraine is decreasing due to the consequences of the war and an increase in the volume of exports of animals by live weight. In most cases, this concerns households. In the industrial sector of 15 regions of Central and Western Ukraine, on the contrary, there is an increase in&...

As of January 1, the cattle population amounted to 2.3 million heads, which is 12.6% less than last year. This was reported by the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers Yana Linetska. In particular, the expert notes that 0.93 million cattle were housed in industrial farm...

As of December 1, 1,380,000 cows are kept in Ukraine, which is 13.9% or 233.7 thousand less than last year. During the full-scale invasion, Ukraine lost 172,700 cows. According to preliminary data from the State Statistics Service, which do not include data on the currently occupied regions, the industrial sector (dairy farms) lost 37,700 cows. However, acco...

During the three months of the war, Ukrainian dairy farms lost only at least 50 thousand cows. This was announced by the General Director of the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) Anna Lavrenyuk during the webinar «Dairy farming in war: problems, trends, practices», which took place on June 16, 2022. Preliminary estimates of the analytical department of AMP coincide with the information from the report of Kyiv School of Economics. As of June 8, the estimated value of&...

For the second day in a row, russian troops are shelling Glukhiv. If the day before the main target of the occupiers was the military, today they have taken up civilian infrastructure. At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, three series of explosions erupted in Glukhiv. Since the explosions were serial, the locals concluded that it was a hailstorm, o...

Heat in Australia is generating wildfires, dust storms, power outages. Feed is getting harder to find, poorer quality and more expensive. Some dairy producers are having great difficulty getting enough water to cows. Australian seasonal milk production in the first 5 months of the dairy season 2018−19 is -4.9% from July-November 2017. In November there was a decrease of -7.8%, i...