Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey
GREAT BRITAIN September Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during the month of September 2019 at 1,210,400 tonnes was a marked 48,500 tonnes or 3.9 per cent down on the record high output from a year earlier. Despite falling below both the previous two years’ production levels, 2019’s total was nevertheless 42,700 tonnes or 3.6 per cent greater than the 10 year average for September. Total feed production during the month of September 2019 was
made up of: 50.6 per cent poultry feed, 28.0 per cent cattle and calf feed, 14.3 per cent pig feed, 3.3 per cent other feed, 2.7 per cent sheep feed and 1.2 per cent horse feed. A significant drop from year earlier levels, totalling 43,300 tonnes,
resulted in cattle and calf feed for September falling to 338,400 tonnes. This 11.3 per cent reduction led to the sector slipping below the 10 year average for the month under review by 9,900 tonnes or 2.9 per cent. Only cattle protein concentrates rose above its respective year
previous total this September, doing so by 500 tonnes or 6.3 per cent to reach 8,400 tonnes. Compounds for dairy cows fell by 5.0 per cent to 183,700 tonnes, a 9,700 tonnes drop from 2018. However, there were more marked falls of 12.7 and 12.4 per cent from total calf feed and blends for dairy cows, whose totals fell 2,100 tonnes and 8,700 tonnes respectively to 14,500 tonnes and 61,600 tonnes. The reductions were greater still in all other cattle compounds and all other cattle blends, with the former dropping 16,900 tonnes or 25.6 per cent to 49,100 tonnes and the latter by 6,100 or 22.3 per cent to 21,200 tonnes. Total pig feed production reached its highest level for four years,
surpassing 2018’s return by 11,700 tonnes or 7.2 per cent. The 173,100 tonnes of production was also 16,000 tonnes or 9.7 per cent greater than the 10 year average for the month. At 5,000 tonnes, pig starters and creep feed was the sole subsector
that failed to better year earlier levels, falling 600 tonnes or 10.7 per cent below the previous September’s total. Pig finishing feed saw a tonnage increase of 6,900 tonnes, equating to an 8.4 per cent rise to 89,200 tonnes. Link and early grower feed and pig breeding feed grew at proportionately similar rates, link and early grower feed by 9.6 per cent or 800 tonnes to 9,100 tonnes and pig breeding feed by 10.3 per cent or 3,500 tonnes to 37,600 tonnes. A 1,200 tonnes or 4.0 per cent improvement in pig finishing feed to 31,100 tonnes rounded off the sector. Record high levels of poultry feed production were attained
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in the September under review. The 612,000 tonnes produced is unparalleled for the month and 8,800 tonnes or 1.5 per cent greater than the previous high amassed a year previously. The current total was additionally 42,700 tonnes or 7.2 per cent larger than the average of the last 10 Septembers. Despite the exceptional performance of the sector overall there
were some reductions from year earlier levels. All other poultry feed fell 1,900 tonnes or 8.0 per cent to 21,800 tonnes; chick rearing feed dropped 1,200 tonnes or 8.6 per cent to 12,800 tonnes; and turkey feed decreased by 2,600 tonnes or 9.7 per cent to 24,100 tonnes. The downturns, however, were more than compensated for by a 7,000 tonnes or 3.4 per cent increase in broiler feed to 213,800 tonnes, a record high for the month. Additionally, layer feed, at 103,800 tonnes had surpassed its year previous total by 1,700 tonnes or 1.7 per cent and poultry breeding and rearing feed did so by 2,500 tonnes or 8.4 per cent to reach 32,300 tonnes. Finally, integrated poultry unit also bettered the returns of the previous September, climbing 3,100 tonnes or 1.6 per cent to 202,600 tonnes. Sheep feed production fell to its lowest level in three years which
led to it dropping below the 10 year average for the month by 700 tonnes or 2.1 per cent. It is worth noting that this average is skewed by the unprecedented 48,800 tonnes of output from 2018, which, the current total of 32,700 tonnes fell 16,100 tonnes or 33.0 per cent behind. Unsurprisingly, given the record high totals amassed a year earlier,
all components of sheep feed dropped well below the production of 2018. The bulk of the shortfall was made up of a 13,100 tonnes or 36.8 per cent decrease in compounds for growing and finishing sheep to 22,500 tonnes and a reduction in output from compounds for breeding sheep of 1,600 tonnes or 34.8 per cent to 3,000 tonnes. There were also respective 800 and 700 tonne falls in blends for breeding sheep and blends for growing and finishing sheep with their productions dropping to 500 tonnes and 6,200 tonnes. Horse feed for September fell to its lowest level since 1998; the
14,400 tonnes was 1,600 tonnes or 10.0 per cent lower than its year earlier total. 2019’s return was an even greater 1,900 tonnes below the 10 year mean for September, a difference of 12.4 per cent. For the first time in five years, other feed production dropped
below 40,000 tonnes in the month of September. The 39,800 tonnes produced in the period was 8,000 tonnes or 16.7 per cent down on
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