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Dairy cattle
Dairy cattle are Bos taurus and Bos indicus bred for milk, domesticated from aurochs, with specialized breeds from the late 1800s; top cows yield over 35,000 kg milk yearly.
Dairy farming
Dairy farming: breeding, raising, and managing cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, and camels for milk. Covers smallholder and commercial systems, lactation physiology, welfare, emissions, and US industry structure.
Dairy farming in Australia
Dairy farming in Australia is the pasture-based raising of cattle for milk, the country's third-largest rural industry, with 3,772 farms producing milk worth $5.966 billion in 2024-25.
Dairy farming in Canada
Dairy farming in Canada, also called the Canadian dairy sector, operates under supply management (quotas, administered prices, TRQs) since 1972; 9,048 farms, 1.38 million cattle, Quebec and Ontario dominate quota, imports exceed exports.
Dairy farming in China
Dairy farming in China is the raising of cattle for milk, transformed within one generation from a million backyard households to large feedlot farms, making China a top four global producer.
Dairy farming in continental Europe
Dairy farming in continental Europe is the commercial keeping of dairy cattle in EU member states, led by Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, and Italy, which supply about two thirds of EU milk.
Dairy farming in Ireland
Dairy farming in Ireland is a grass-based, seasonally calving system of about 17,000 family farms, with 2025 exports of dairy products worth a record €7.3 billion.
Dairy farming in Japan
Dairy farming in Japan is the raising of dairy cattle, chiefly Holsteins, for raw milk; it took root in Hokkaido before 1868, which now produces about 57% of national fluid milk.
Dairy farming in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dairy farming in Latin America and the Caribbean is a mostly cattle-based industry of about 3.3 million small producers, led by Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.
Dairy farming in New Zealand
Dairy farming in New Zealand: pasture-based, export-dominated industry producing 21 billion litres of milk (1.94 billion kg milksolids) in 2024/25 from 4.68 million cows; about 95% exported, Fonterra processes ~77%, sector's largest export earner.
Dairy farming in Pakistan
Dairy farming in Pakistan is based mostly on buffalo milk raised by smallholders, making Pakistan the world's 3rd largest milk producer at about 57 million tonnes.
Dairy farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dairy farming in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by smallholder systems, 70 percent of the industry in most countries, led by Eastern Africa with Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania predominant.
Dairy farming in the Middle East and North Africa
Dairy farming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ranges from desert industrial cow dairies to nomadic sheep and goat flocks, in a region dependent on imported milk.
Dairy farming in the United Kingdom
Dairy farming in the United Kingdom raises dairy cattle for milk, with a 1.8 million-cow herd producing 15.8 billion liters worth £7.0 billion in 2025.
Dairy industry in the United States
The dairy industry in the United States is the world's second-largest cow's milk producer, with 226 billion pounds from about 9.3 million cows on roughly 25,000 farms in 2024.
Dairy manure handling equipment
Dairy manure handling equipment is the machinery and fixed plant a dairy farm uses to collect, transfer, pump, separate, store, and load manure and milking-shed effluent.
Dairy product
Dairy products are foods made from milk, including drinking milk, fermented milks, cheese, butter, and whey products. EU law reserves names like yogurt and kephir; EU farms produced 160.0 million tonnes of raw milk in 2022.
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen (DQ) is an American soft-serve ice cream and fast-food chain founded in Joliet, Illinois, in 1940, known for the Blizzard treat. Owned by Berkshire Hathaway's International Dairy Queen, it runs 7,800+ restaurants in 20+ countries.
Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作)
Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作; 1928–2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader who led the Soka Gakkai from 1960, founded Soka Gakkai International in 1975, and built the lay Nichiren Buddhist movement into a worldwide organization.
DAISHI DANCE
DAISHI DANCE (鈴木大士, Suzuki Daishi), born 1976 in Sapporo, is a Japanese house DJ and producer whose melodic piano-and-strings albums have sold over 1 million copies since 2006.
Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group
Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group is a Japanese regional bank holding company in Niigata Prefecture, formed in 2018 by the integration of Daishi Bank and Hokuetsu Bank.
Daishō
Daishō (大小, "large and small") is the matched pair of swords worn by the Japanese samurai, a katana and wakizashi that Edo-period law reserved for them.
Daisho antimicrobial peptide
Daisho peptides (Daisho1/Dso1, formerly IM4; Daisho2/Dso2, formerly IM14) are Drosophila Toll-induced immune peptides, adjacent divergently transcribed genes, required against a subset of filamentous fungi such as Fusarium oxysporum.
Daisies (1966 film)
Daisies (Sedmikrásky) is Věra Chytilová's 1966 Czechoslovak New Wave surrealist comedy about two Maries rebelling through pranks and food orgies; censored, banned after 1968, later ranked 28th in Sight and Sound's 2022 greatest-films poll.
Daisies (Justin Bieber song)
"Daisies" (DAISIES) is a 2025 lo-fi alt-pop single by Justin Bieber from his surprise album SWAG, produced with Mk.gee and Dijon; it hit UK Number 1 and topped Spotify's US and Global charts.
Daiso (ダイソー)
Daiso, or Daiso Industries Co., Ltd., is a Japanese variety-store chain founded in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, known for 100-yen household goods at nearly 5,900 stores worldwide.
Daiso Industries
Daiso Industries is a Japanese fixed-price retail operator founded by Hirotake Yano in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, known for its DAISO 100-yen shops.
Daisuke Hirakawa (平川大輔)
Daisuke Hirakawa (平川大輔), Japanese voice actor born 1973 in Niigata City, freelance since 2014. Known for Kakyoin in JoJo, Rei in Free!, Enmu in Demon Slayer, and dubbing Orlando Bloom and Tom Hiddleston.
Daisuke Kihara
Daisuke Kihara is a Japanese-born computational structural biologist and bioinformatician, a full professor at Purdue University known for deep-learning tools that build atomic protein models from cryo-EM maps.
Daisuke Kohda
Daisuke Kohda is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at Kyushu University's Medical Institute of Bioregulation who determines protein structures by NMR spectroscopy, known for the Tom20 mitochondrial import receptor.