On the similar time, annual milk yield per cow elevated barely to 7.3 tonnes. Because of this the nation is near an annual uncooked milk manufacturing of 4 million tonnes, in keeping with figures printed by Statistics Austria on Tuesday. Of this, 3.53 million tonnes have been delivered for processing, 146,787 tonnes have been bought from the farm and 260,539 tonnes have been fed to animals.
In 2023, Austria’s farmers additionally stored extra dairy goats (40,638) than within the earlier 12 months, which gave a mean of 656 kilos of milk, a complete of 26,642 tonnes. The typical milk yield of goats was additionally larger than within the earlier 12 months. Nonetheless, the proportion of this meant for human consumption fell to 23,414 tonnes. Sheep’s milk was additionally much less in demand final 12 months, with the variety of dairy sheep falling by 2.8 % to 27,828 and uncooked milk manufacturing falling by 1.3 % to 11,541 tonnes, however the yield per animal was larger than in 2022 at 415 kilos. As with goat’s milk, a bigger proportion of sheep’s milk was fed to animals than within the earlier 12 months, and human consumption fell to 9,913 tonnes.