Dynamics of dairy cattle breeding development in the European North of the Russian Federation

The article presents the research results on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of dairy cattle populations and breeding farms in the European North of the Russian Federation. Nowadays, taking into account the current political and economic situation of the livestock sector management, the problem of preserving the number of dairy cattle breeds and increasing cow’s milk productivity is quite pressing. In the European North of the Russian Federation, there has been found the tendency of reducing the number of cows by 9.92 thousands of animals for the period from 2010 to 2018, which amounts to 70.29 thousands of animals. There is an increase in cow productivity in every region of the European North of the Russian Federation. The maximum increase of 2074 kg of milk is registered in the Vologda region, which amounts 7418kg of milk in 2018. These research results are taken as a mandatory element for the characteristics of dairy cattle populations, which allows us to determine the dynamics of development of animal quantitative and qualitative characteristics for working out planned measures.