In Flanders, the northern part of Belgium with the most dairy cattle, the number of dairy farms has schrinked to less than 4000. In 2020 Flanders housed 3994 dairy farms, 114 less than in 2019. In Flanders the average somatic cell count of delivered milk was 191000 cells per millilitre, the bacterial counts was 8900 colony forming units per millilitre. Average 98 percent of the farms meets the highest Flanders quality standards.