1.   His operation, in terms of mechanization and dairy herd management, is one of the most capital-intensive in the province.

2.   It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd.

3.   Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.

4.   Milk is the dominant product from livestock farms, and beef is usually a byproduct of the dairy herd.

5.   Most dairy herds today are of Friesian or Holstein breeds.

6.   The land is used intensively mainly for dairy herds producing fresh milk.

7.   In the livestock sector, the dairy breeding herd continued to fall while the beef breeding herd continued to increase.

8.   A culling program would force up dairy prices because the cattle most at risk from BSE are older cows that make up the dairy herd.

9.   A culling program would force up dairy prices because the cattle most at risk are the older cows that comprise the dairy herd.

10.   A culling program would force up dairy prices because the cattle most at risk from BSE are the older cows that comprise the dairy herd.