Zróżnicowanie produkcji mleka w regionach Unii Europejskiej w latach 2007-2011

The purpose of the considerations was to identify similarities and differences between dairy farms from different regions of the European Union in 2009. The diversity of dairy farms in the regions of theEuropean Union was determined by agglomerated cluster analysis using Ward's method. The research was based on FADN data. It analyzed the economic size of farms (ESU classification), total utilised agricultural area, the number of dairy cows and the average annual milk yield. On this basis the typology of EU regions has been made. As a result of clustering five homogeneous cluster regions have been obtained. A comparison of production and economic indicators in each group of regions has been made to determine the similarities and differences between the clusters.