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Milk phenomenon of California

California, where the Hollywood, film industry center of the world, is situated, is a state leader in production of milk. In 2008, they developed 19 million tons of milk there, and set new goals — 21 million tons of milk in 2020. Dairy industry has long taken the first position among other branches of agricultural production in the state. Each year the state sells dairy products for more than 4.5 billion dollars.

Local scientists have long calculated that the contribution of the dairy industry in the state economics is over 63 billion dollars creating 443,000 jobs. Having made these calculations, the scientists surprised not only themselves, proving that the dairy industry in the economic structure of the state is ahead of such well-known industries like film production and wine. Statistics show that the film industry creates assets at $ 35 billion and provides 208 thousand jobs, and the wine industry — 59 billion dollars and 330 thousand jobs, respectively.

Today in California there are 1750dairy farms, which held 1.79 million milk cows. No wonder the local farmers like saying that one in five American cow lives in California. These, California cows showed a record performance: in 2009 the average milk yield in the state exceeded 10 thousand liters. Such production figures are reached under the strictest environmental legislation.

 

See full version in Milk and Farm Journal, № 3, December, 2010.

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