Chinese and Russian investors are collaborating to build a 100,000-cow dairy – the largest in the world – in northeast China to supply milk and cheese to the Russian market, says Farmers Weekly, based in England. The farm would be far larger than the 40,000-cow Modern Dairy Co., also in China and now ranked as world’s largest, and the largest U.S. dairy, Fair Oaks Indiana, which has 30,000 cows. Up to 300,000 hectares (741,000 acres) of cropland will provide feed and forage for the new farm at Mudanjiang. “The construction began as Russia looks to secure suppliers of dairy products beyond the EU,” said Farmers Weekly, pointing to trade sanctions as a motivating factor for the project. An EU farm leader said the Mudanjiang farm could produce enough milk to replace 30 percent of the usual amount of EU cheese sold to Russia.