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The Ayrshire was exported to the United States from 1822, primarily to Connecticut and other parts of New England. [4] The environment was similar to their native land of Scotland. The American Ayrshire Breed Association was founded in 1875. The Approved Ayrshire Milk programme, which licensed farms that owned Ayrshire cattle, began in the 1930s.
The Finnish Ayrshire is a Finnish breed of dairy cattle. It derives from Scottish Ayrshire stock imported to Finland between about 1847 and 1923. [ 1 ] : 118 It is the most numerous dairy breed of the country, constituting approximately 61% of the dairy herd.
Ayrshire is one of the most agriculturally fertile regions of Scotland. Potatoes are grown in fields near the coast, using seaweed-based fertiliser, and in addition the region produces pork products, other root vegetables, and cattle (see below); [1] and summer berries such as strawberries are grown abundantly.
A2 milk is a variety of cows' milk that predominately contains the A2 form of β-casein proteins (as opposed to A1 milk, which contains mostly A1 β-casein proteins). [1] Cows' milk like this was brought to market by The a2 Milk Company and is sold mostly in Australia, New Zealand, China, and the United States. It was sold in the United Kingdom ...
The Lothians became a major centre of grain, Ayrshire of cattle breading and the Borders of sheep. [ 54 ] The result of these changes were the Lowland Clearances , by which hundreds of thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from central and southern Scotland were forcibly moved from the farms and small holdings their families had occupied for ...
The Swedish Red-and-White, Swedish: Svensk Röd och Vit Boskap, frequently abbreviated to SRB, is a Swedish breed of dairy cattle. It was created in the 1920s by crossing the Swedish Red Pied and Swedish Ayrshire breeds.
Livestock numbers have been falling in recent years. The trend began at the turn of the millennium in the case of pigs and sheep and dates to the mid-1970s in the case of cattle. In June 2013 there were 6.6 million sheep, 1.8 million cattle and 308,000 pigs, the lowest numbers since the 1940 and 1950s.
The product must be made from full fat cows' milk, from cows grazed in the designated area. The product must contain a minimum fat content of 48% and a maximum water content of 48%. [40] Swaledale Ewes cheese PDO (UK, EU) 1996 Limited to cheese produced, processed and prepared in the Swaledale Valley, North Yorkshire, using traditional methods.