Feed Production Update


By Ryan Mounsey


GREAT BRITAIN October Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during October 2020 fell for the second year in succession to an output of 1,096,500 tonnes, 13,200 tonnes or 1.2 per cent below 2019’s production and the lowest of the last four years. However, the total under review was 31,600 tonnes or 2.9 per cent greater than the decade long average for October. Total feed production during the month of October 2020 was made


up of: 44.8 per cent poultry feed, 31.6 per cent cattle and calf feed, 15.5 per cent pig feed, 3.5 per cent sheep feed, 1.4 per cent horse feed and 3.3 per cent other feed. Despite the overall drop in production, total cattle and calf feed


rose by 1,400 tonnes or 0.4 per cent from a year previously to 346,000 tonnes. However, due to the relatively poor performance in the last two years of the decade, the current total was an identical 1,400 tonnes or 0.4 per cent below the 10 year average for October. The largest component of the cattle and calf feed sector,


compounds for dairy cows, dropped for the second year in succession to 175,900 tonnes, a fall of 6,100 tonnes or 3.4 per cent. All other cattle compounds also failed to reach year earlier levels and dropped by 300 tonnes or 0.6 per cent to 48,000 tonnes. The remaining subsectors all bettered their year previous returns. Cattle protein concentrates grew to its highest output for the month since 1997, at 8,900 tonnes, this was 500 tonnes or 6.0 per cent greater than in 2019, whilst total calf feed increased from a year earlier by a similar 6.2 per cent to 17,100 tonnes, a growth of 1,000 tonnes. Both blends for dairy cows and all other cattle blends also surpassed their respective year previous returns with the former rising by 4,400 tonnes or 6.7 per cent to 69,900 tonnes and the latter by 1,900 tonnes or 7.8 per cent to 26,300 tonnes. Total pig feed production also surpassed year earlier returns,


with output increasing by 5,200 tonnes or 3.2 per cent as it climbed to its highest total for the month since 1999 of 169,800 tonnes. The total under review was also a significant 18,200 tonnes or 11.3 per cent higher than the 10 year average for the month. Only pig protein concentrates failed to exceed year earlier outputs


with production dropping by 600 tonnes or 46.2 per cent to 700 tonnes whereas pig breeding feed matched them at 36,900 tonnes of output. The largest tonnage increases from year earlier levels occurred in pig growing feed and pig finishing feed which grew by 1,800 tonnes or 6.0 per cent and 3,200 tonnes or 3.9 per cent respectively to 31,700 tonnes and 86,000 tonnes. Additionally, link and early grower feed rose to a record high production of 9,400 tonnes, an increase of 800 tonnes or 9.3 per cent. Finally, there was an upturn in the region of 100 tonnes or 2.0 per cent in pig starters and creep feed from the corresponding month a year previously, up to 5,200 tonnes of production. A sharp fall of 24,600 tonnes or 4.8 per cent from the record output


of a year previous was observed in total poultry feed production for October, which dropped to 491,200 tonnes. Whilst the current total was substantially lower than 2019’s return it was large enough to better the decade long average for the month by 12,500 tonnes or 2.6 per cent. Layer feed was the sole poultry feed subsector to better its year


earlier return, surpassing it by 6,000 tonnes or 6.7 per cent to match the record output first reached in 2018 of 95,700 tonnes. The largest poultry feed division, broiler feed, fell sharply from the year previous’ record high to 156,100 tonnes, a drop of 14,100 tonnes or 8.3 per cent. Turkey feed also experienced dramatic reductions from 2019 returns, falling by 9,400 tonnes or 28.2 per cent to 23,900 tonnes, the lowest October production on record. Both chick rearing feed and poultry protein concentrates fell 200 tonnes below year earlier outputs, as chick rearing feed dropped 1.8 per cent to 11,100 tonnes and poultry protein concentrates declined by 33.3 per cent to 400 tonnes. The sector was rounded off by: integrated poultry unit production falling by 3,000 tonnes or 1.7 per cent to 168,800 tonnes; poultry breeding and rearing feed production falling by 2,300 tonnes or 8.1 per cent to 26,200 tonnes; and all other poultry feed production falling by 1,600 tonnes or 15.2 per cent to 8,900 tonnes. At 38,700 tonnes, total sheep feed production had surpassed year


earlier output by 4,200 tonnes or 12.2 per cent. Furthermore, 2020’s return was a similar 4,100 tonnes or 11.2 per cent greater than the average of the 10 Octobers. Both blends for breeding sheep and sheep protein concentrates fell approximately 100 tonnes below year previous levels. The former fell by 12.5 per cent to 700 tonnes and the latter by 20.0 per cent to 400 tonnes. Conversely, both compounds for breeding sheep and blends for growing and finishing sheep surpassed year previous output by 500 tonnes, with the former rising by 11.4 per cent to 4,900 tonnes and the latter by 9.8 per cent to 5,600 tonnes. Compounds for growing and finishing sheep also bettered its year previous production, doing so by a substantial 3,500 tonnes or 14.8 per cent to reach 27,200 tonnes. Rising to its highest level for the month in three years, total horse feed bettered year earlier output by 1,500 tonnes or 11.0 per cent as


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