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Scott Lord, from one of the biggest dairy cow auctioneers, Dairy Livestock Services, says animals are selling for more than $2,000.
The number of dairy farms has fallen by two-thirds over the last three decades from 22,000 in 1980 to just below 7,000 in mid-2011.