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International markets outside of the EU and UK accounted for 34% Of Ireland's exports, €5 billion of which were from the dairy industry, with €3.5 billion from meat and livestock; of those beef exports constituted €2.1 billion, pig-meat €542 million, sheep-meat €420 million and primary poultry at €128 million .
The Galway is Ireland's only recognised native breed, and in 1999, there were less than 1000 true to type Galway sheep in 39 pedigree flocks (a dramatic increase from 14 breeders in 1990). [ citation needed ] The breed which developed was for many years known as the Roscommon, and a Flock Book of Roscommon Long-Wool Sheep was established in ...
Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]
Suffolks are a medium wool, black-faced breed of meat sheep that make up 60% of the sheep population in the U.S. [24] ... Uruguay, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...
Sheep, goats, cattle and cereals were imported from Britain and Europe. Wheat and barley were the principal crops cultivated. There was an economic collapse around 2500BC and the population declined from its peak of around 100,000. Metalworking began in Ireland around 2500 BC, with bronze being the principal metal used.
The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) descended from a population of feral sheep on the 100-hectare (250-acre) island of Soay in the St Kilda Archipelago, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) from the Western Isles of Scotland. It is one of the Northern European short-tailed sheep breeds.
The First Fleet brought the initial population of 70 sheep from the Cape of Good Hope to Australia in 1788. [52] The next shipment was of 30 sheep from Calcutta and Ireland in 1793. [52] All of the early sheep brought to Australia were exclusively used for the dietary needs of the penal colonies.
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