VERNEAU Dominique

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With just over 600 million liters of goat's milk produced annually, a figure that has been steadily increasing for decades, the goat farming sector is a small but dynamic industry that, in recent years, has managed to control volumes to ensure good income for those involved. The profession of goat farmer remains demanding, requiring nearly 20 hours of work per 1,000 liters of milk. In addition to the 3,000 farmstead cheesemakers, approximately 70 processors primarily produce cheese (including 16 PDO cheeses), and, more recently, fresh products and milk for consumption. The sector faces numerous challenges:

- generational renewal (promoting new methods of farm establishment and financing),

- improving quality (PDO, organic, new export markets),

- evolving production methods to meet societal expectations (reduced greenhouse gas emissions, animal welfare, energy efficiency),
- transforming the upstream structure and contractual relationships,
- innovation: pasture-based systems and self-sufficiency, ethology, greenhouse gas reduction,
- adapting to climate change and its consequences, particularly regarding health crises (raw milk, bluetongue).

Abstract :

     With just over 600 million liters of goat's milk produced annually, a figure that has been steadily increasing for decades, the goat farming sector is a small but dynamic industry that, in recent years, has managed to control volumes to ensure good income for those involved. The profession of goat farmer remains demanding, requiring nearly 20 hours of work per 1,000 liters of milk. In addition to the 3,000 farmstead cheesemakers, approximately 70 processors primarily produce cheese (including 16 PDO cheeses), and, more recently, fresh products and milk for consumption. The sector faces numerous challenges: 

- generational renewal (promoting new methods of farm establishment and financing),

- improving quality (PDO, organic, new export markets),

- evolving production methods to meet societal expectations (reduced greenhouse gas emissions, animal welfare, energy efficiency),
- transforming the upstream structure and contractual relationships,
- innovation: pasture-based systems and self-sufficiency, ethology, greenhouse gas reduction,
- adapting to climate change and its consequences, particularly regarding health crises (raw milk, bluetongue).