
Found the following data while poking around at the National Agricultural Statistics Service for numbers to accompany our Dairyland Diversity project. The number of cows in Wisconsin peaked during World War II and has more or less fallen ever since.
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Found the following data while poking around at the National Agricultural Statistics Service for numbers to accompany our Dairyland Diversity project. The number of cows in Wisconsin peaked during World War II and has more or less fallen ever since.
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by Kate Golden, Wisconsin Watch
May 6, 2010
Kate Golden, multimedia director and reporter, specializes in environmental stories and data visualizations.
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Kate, that’s a really interesting and amusing graph. Mark Perry’s blog post [1] with the price data added makes it even more interesting. Some of the comments on that post suggest that there may be negative health effects due to the means used for increasing the cows’ productivity. What are your thoughts on that?
[1] http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/05/fewer-cows-more-milk-powered-by-tableau.html