Key	Year	Country	Total number of dairy cows	Total number of dairy herds	Average of cows per herd	Average milk production per cow per year (kg)	Percent of fat production per cow per year (%)	Percent of protein production per cow per year (%)	Others	E-mail address of the responsible
9	2009	Italy								fioretti.m@aia.it
8	2008	Italy	1.831.000 (estimate)	40.207 (estimate)	45.54 (estimate)				Total number of dairy herds:data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank)
7	2007	Italy	1838000 (estimate)	44373 (estimate)	41.42 (estimate)				Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank)
6	2006	Italy	1814000 (estimate)	46872 (estimate)	38.70 (estimate)				Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank)
5	2005	Italy	1842000	52435	35.13		3.73 (estimate)	3.30 (estimate)	Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank); Percent of fat and protein % estimated on sold milk ;	fioretti.m@aia.it
4	2004	Italy	1838000	56096	32.8	6018	3.71	3.29	Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank); Percent of fat and protein % estimated on sold milk ; average milk production calculated as ratio of total produced milk with total estimated number of dairy cows	Fioretti.m@aia.it
3	2003	Italy	1913000	62763	30.5	5802	3.67	3.26	Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank); Percent of fat and protein % estimated on sold milk ; average milk production calculated as ratio of total produced milk with total estimated number of dairy cows	fioretti.m@aia.it
2	2002	Italy	1911000	64720	29.5	5927	3.66	3.28	Total number of dairy herds: data from BDN (National Bovine Data Bank); Percent of fat and protein % estimated on sold milk ; average milk production calculated as ratio of total produced milk with total estimated number of dairy cows	fioretti.m@aia.it
1	2001	Italy	2154000	63666 * (estimate AIMA-AGEA)	33.8	5157		3.27		fioretti.m@aia.it