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World Milk Day

The international milk day set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization, kept by dairy farmers, schools and cooperatives.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at World Milk Day

World Milk Day was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2001 and is marked each year on 1 June. It is a day for the dairy world to talk about the work of farming, from small herds of two or three cows in India and East Africa to large herds in the Americas and New Zealand. Farms open their gates for visits, schools hand out milk, cooperatives hold events, and many countries add their own dairy days and months. Milk comes from many animals across the world, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels and yaks, but cattle give by far the largest share.

The breeds

Holstein FriesianThe highest-yielding dairy breed, kept around the world.JerseyThe small dairy cow with rich milk.GirAn Indian dairy breed, also central to tropical Brazil.SahiwalA heat-tolerant dairy breed of the subcontinent.Brown SwissThe Alpine dairy breed, known for long working lives.
About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "World Milk Day" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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