and December 2011 did see cattle and calf feed production down by a combined total of 13,600 tonnes on the same months of 2010 which, although representing a relatively small combined decline of 1.8 per cent on production in 2010, is at least compatible with the view that cattle were left out longer with a consequently reduced demand for prepared feeds. The pattern within individual cattle and calf feeds was variable.
Production of calf feeds was higher in October and November 2011 than in the same months of 2010 but significantly down during the three months February to April and July through September. Production of dairy compounds was lower in every month of 2011 compared with 2010 with the single exception of December. Production of dairy blends which was slightly down on the level of 2010, saw lower output in each month between May and October although February witnessed a 7,900 tonne or 13 per cent increase over the same month of 2010. There is more positive evidence of a weather-related effect where non-dairy adult cattle compounds are concerned in that output was 9,900 tonnes lower in November and December 2011, a figure which would account for a significant portion of the total shortfall for the year of 12,900 tonnes. There is significantly more evidence of weather-related effects as far as non-dairy adult cattle blends were concerned; of a total reduction of 16,500 tonnes in 2011 compared with the previous year, 15,000 tonnes occurred in the months August to December. Finally, as regards protein concentrates, there was just one month of 2011,
October, when production in 2011 was greater than in 2010. Weather would thus seem to have exerted some influence
on the pattern of cattle and calf feed production in 2011 but the effect is difficult to quantify. The DEFRA data is based on returns from throughout Great Britain whereas available reports from feed manufacturers are relatively localised. Pig producers, on the other hand, are less affected by weather conditions; it is economics which bear more heavily on their activities. Production of pig feeds in Great Britain during 2011, at 1.46 million tonnes, was 4,800 tonnes or 0.3 per cent less than in 2010; in other words, virtually unchanged. The total was, however, a far cry from the total achieved in the years before 2000 when, in the eight previous years, production had averaged 2.35 million tonnes a year. Declines in production were registered in all sub-categories
of pig compounds with the exception of grower and finisher feeds which added a combined 24,000 tonnes compared to 2010. There was, however, a substantial decline in output of starter and creep feeds as well as link and early grower feeds; an ominous signpost to production of pig feeds in early 2012. Interestingly, production of protein concentrates fell sharply by 7,200 tonnes or more than 42 per cent. Here then is another sector where protein concentrates, which often feature as a contributor to home-mixed feeding regimes, appear to point to a decline in the popularity of that production model, at least temporarily. Production of poultry feed by so-called ‘retail’ compounders
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