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1
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40
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20%
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Small sedentary
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Small sedentary farms using mostly village pasture and having the highest reliance on supplements in winter, including purchased concentrate.
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2
|
56
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28%
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Medium mobile
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Medium farms with high mobility and access to pastures. Provide less fodder per head than other medium operations (3 and 4), mostly in the form of self-produced roughage. Many use off-village pasture all year.
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3
|
25
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13%
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Medium fodder purchaser
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Medium farms with almost no access to arable land, providing large amounts of purchased supplements. Cover a wide range of pasture use and mobility types, but the majority use off-village summer pasture only.
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4
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32
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16%
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Medium fodder producer
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Medium farms with the highest mean cropland areas and volume of concentrate provided per animal. This group has a range of pasture use and mobility, but the majority use off-village pasture in summer pasture only.
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5
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27
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14%
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Large mobile fodder purchaser
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Large mobile extensive operation using both off-village winter and summer pastures and providing mostly poor-quality roughage (natural hay) in winter, much of which is purchased.
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6
|
20
|
10%
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Large mobile fodder producer
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Large mobile operation using both remote winter and summer pastures, with access to cropland and provision of high-quality self-produced fodder in relatively small quantities.
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