feed production during February. Layer and broiler feeds production led the pack. Production of
the latter, at 34,900 tonnes, was 2,600 tonnes or 8 per cent ahead of production in February 2016 while the production of layer feeds, at 20,800 tonnes, was 1,800 tonnes or 9.7 per cent ahead of year earlier levels. In contrast, production of chick rearing feeds was lower than a year earlier, albeit only marginally. Production of feeds for turkeys and other poultry was also lower if only by 200 tonnes or slightly less than 5 per cent. In contrast to their colleagues on the UK mainland, producers of
feeds for sheep and lambs had a relatively disappointing February with production of 9,000 tonnes falling below the levels of February 2016 by 400 tonnes or 4.3 per cent. The principal cause of the decline was a fall in the production of feeds for breeding animals which, at 3,900 tonnes during the month were 1,200 tonnes or 23 per cent lower than in the same month a year earlier. In contrast, production of compounds for growing and finishing sheep, at 3,100 tonnes, were 700 tonnes or 30.2 per cent higher than in February 2016. There was also a marginal increase in the production of coarse mixes or blends for the latter category. Production of lightly processed feed materials, consisting
of flaked maize and barley in various forms, amounted to 6,800 tonnes in February 2017, 200 tonnes or 2.9 per cent less than in the corresponding month a year earlier. It amounted to 3.3 per cent of total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, compared to a corresponding figure of 3.6 per cent in February 2016. On current performance, it does not appear that production of feeds in Northern Ireland is going to break any records in 2017 even though, as reported previously in this column, the balance of feed production in the UK as a whole appears to be shifting towards the west. Cumulative feed production of 409,500 tonnes in the first two months of 2017 was lower than in the three years 2013 – 2015 with
2014 currently holding the record for Northern Ireland with production of 418,600 tonnes. However, as the saying goes, it is still early days. Northern Ireland recorded its current production maximum of 2,319,300 tonnes in 2013. Data regarding feed production in Northern Ireland during March
is scheduled for publication on 5 May; it, together with appropriate analysis, will be made available to readers as soon as possible after that date, together with an assessment of the outcome of the first quarter’s results.
WEATHER WATCH It has been a comparatively warm year in the UK so far, with temperatures in February and March in particular well above the normal, defined by the average of the approximately three decades between 1981 and 2010. The weather in January was a bit mixed – while the UK as a whole had temperatures a scant 0.2°C above normal, Scotland and Northern Ireland enjoyed comparatively balmy temperature of, respectively, 1°C and 0.9°C above normal; even Wales saw above average temperatures for the month but England shivered in icy blasts. In the succeeding two months, all was transformed. Taking the
UK as a whole, February and March saw average temperatures of, respectively, 1.6°C and 1.8°C above the seasonal norm. England headed these UK-wide suggestions of a premature summer with average temperatures in February and March of, respectively, 2.5°C and 3.1°C above normal as defined earlier. This edition of Feed Compounder went to the printers a few days
before the Meteorological Office could compile their data for April. However, your correspondent from a purely personal point-of-view, would be extremely surprised if the Meteorological Office did not report mean temperatures during the month as being well above average, albeit that, during the last week of the month, the unseasonably warm
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