Suckler cows were important but their number had declined in recent years.

The breed is used mostly for beef production as suckler cows.

Its effect, after all, would be to prompt the farmers to slaughter their suckler cows now.

Concentrating all the beef subsidy on the suckler cow was impossible too.

The same would apply to the quotas for suckler cows and heifers.

Most of the cows are kept as suckler cows.

The committee is calling for a standard subsidy for suckler cows and male cattle.

Rather than consuming imported proteins, these suckler cows eat grass and use pasture land.

I know from experience in my area that many sheep farmers and suckler cow farmers are simply leaving the industry.

Beef premium, suckler cow payment and arable area will be monitored this year.

This should also limit beef and veal production, which depends to a considerable degree on the number of suckler cows.

The other is the restriction of production, as intended, by means of the reduction in the premium for suckler cows.

Beef-cross heifers have long been sought after as ideal suckler cow replacements.

Beware of bulls and suckler cows.

Here the breed is known as Simmentaler and is mainly used for beef cattle production under suckler cow systems.

I thus think that premiums for all these sectors should be reduced, including the premiums for suckler cows.

The Commission actually wants to abolish the specific compensation for the production system that is most environmentally friendly: the production of suckler cows.

The special premiums for male cattle and suckler cows would once again be limited to 90 animals or 1.8 LU per hectare.

Ruminants, such as sheep, dairy cows and suckler cows, are for the most part fed on the products of the farm itself.

The Pinzgauer is mainly bred as a beef suckler cow, so there is no selection on milk performance.

Small Shetland cows could produce a cross-bred suckler cow that would in turn produce a larger calf.

The possibility of coupling the payment is valid both for suckler cows and for sheep and goats.

You, Commissioner, have written in a major agricultural periodical about a successful programme in Austria, involving suckler cows.

Secondly, the level of the suckler cow premium was raised to the maximum allowable under EEC rules.

Milk quotas in principle should remain but should be changed in line with the suckler cow and sheep quotas.