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Mergers seem to be one of the ways forward for the big Chinese dairy farming companies and in October of 2020 the company Youran Farming acquired the entire equity of the farming operations of Fonterra in China. After the completion of the acquisition of these 2 companies, the total number of animals at Modern Farming will be over 330,000 and the yearly production will exceed 2 billion kg of milk. The company is already well on its way to reach this future goal as it has, since the release of the ‘5-Year Leadership Plan’, taken over the companies Fuyuan International and Zhongyuan Dairy. This company had 233,000 animals in 2019 but according to Modern Farming’s ‘5-Year Leadership Plan’, released in December 2020, the intention is that in 2025 the company should have doubled both the number of animals and milk production to an astonishing 500,000 animals and an annual production of 3,6 billion kg. Leading the way is the company Modern Farming. Photo: Snorri SigurdssonĮven bigger dairy farming trends in near futureĬonsidering the current trend in China, it seems that the farming companies will become even bigger in near future. Here can be seen corn silage in the making for one of the bigger dairy farms in China.
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The total investment in this farm is estimated to be 2,8 billion Chinese Yuan or about €360 million.īig farms need big silage places. This farm will, when it is fully built, house 40,000 dairy cows and become the single largest dairy farm in the world. This single farm has about 40,000 animals and space for 20,000 adult cows that are milked by 8 rotary milking systems that all are connected to one single tank-room area! Even though this might seem like a huge farm, an even bigger one is under construction and partly operational now in the Inner Mongolia province. Bengbu the largest dairy farmĬhina’s single largest dairy farm is the Bengbu Farm in Anhui province that is owned by Modern Farming. This single farm has about 40,000 animals and space for 20.000 adult cows that are milked by 8 rotary milking systems. In 2019, the average yield of the 25 biggest dairy farming companies was 10,2 tonnes of milk per cow compared to the average of 8 tons per cow in China.
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Other dairy farming companies, that exceeded the average yield of 11,000 kg per cow in 2019 were: Tianjin Jialihe Animal Husbandry, Youran Farming, Qianjin Farming, Fuyuan International, Hebei Leyuan Farming, and Yuansheng Tai. Those calves are then kept in small outdoor hutches for several weeks. On Bengbu farm, the currently biggest in China, 50-100 calves are born every day. According to new data the Chifeng AustAsia Modern Farm was the highest yielding dairy farm in China in 2020 with an average yield of 13,654 kg per cow whitch is astonishing yield considering that this farm had 12,767 animals in 2020. But the AustAsia Farms are not only the largest on average, they also have the highest average yield, with 12,600 kg per cow per year in 2019. Then several farming companies have around 8,000 animals, these are Yuansheng Tai, Modern Farming and Fonterra. When looking at average farm sizes, the AustAsia farms are the largest average size farms with an average stock of 12,291 animals divided on 7 farming operations in different places in China. The Chifeng AustAsia Modern Farm was the highest yielding dairy farm in China in 2020 with an average yield of 13,654 kg per cow. In central and south China the farm buildings are usually quite simple. The farming conditions in China are quite diverse based on where the farms are.