Shannon is a town in Lee County, Mississippi. The population was 1,753 at the 2010 Census. Shannon is located on Mississippi Highway 145, west of U.S. Route 45. Chiwapa Creek flows south of the town.
Aside from cattle, many kinds of livestock provide milk used by humans for dairy products. These animals include buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, donkey, horse, reindeer and yak. The first four respectively produced about 11%, 2%, 1.4% and 0.2% of all milk worldwide in 2011.
1 Milk from dairy species other than cattle represents 39 percent of milk production in Asia, 26 percent in Africa, 3 percent in Europe and 0.3 percent in the Americas; it is almost non-existent in Oceania.  The state of the worldâs animal genetic resources for food and agriculture.