Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey
GREAT BRITAIN November Production Overview
Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during the month of November 2019 was 1,125,700 tonnes, 20,800 tonnes or 1.8 per cent below the output of 2018 and the second year in succession where November production has fallen. Despite dropping below both the previous two years production, 2019’s total was nevertheless 48,900 tonnes or 4.4 per cent greater than the 10 year average for the month under review. Total feed production during the month of November 2019 was made up of: 46.0 per cent poultry feed, 31.2 per cent cattle and calf feed, 14.4 per cent pig feed, 4.0 per cent sheep feed, 3.1 per cent other feed and 1.3 per cent horse feed. The 351,200 tonnes of cattle and calf feed production was the lowest output for the month since 2015. Sitting a sizable 62,400 tonnes or 16.5 per cent below the total amassed a year previously, 2019’s return was also 2,400 tonnes or 0.7 per cent short of the 10 year average for November.
Only cattle protein concentrates managed to surpass their year earlier production rates, rising 100 tonnes to 8,700 tonnes; all other components of the sector fell. Total calf feed dropped by a reasonably small 400 tonnes or 2.5 per cent to 15,300 tonnes whereas all other cattle compounds fell by a considerable 9,200 tonnes or 14.8 per cent to 52,900 tonnes. At 179,000 tonnes, dairy cow compounds production in November decreased by 5,900 tonnes or 3.2 per cent while blends for dairy cows, at 70,000 tonnes, fell by 6,900 tonnes or 9.0 per cent. The final subsector, all other cattle blends, dropped to its lowest level since 2008 having fallen by 4,100 tonnes or 13.9 per cent to 25,400 tonnes.
One of only two sectors this month that saw its production surpass year earlier output was pig feed, whose production rose substantially to reach the highest output this millennium. Bettering 2018’s total by 8,100 tonnes or 5.2 per cent, the 162,400 tonnes of production was 15,600 tonnes or 10.1 per cent greater than the decade long November average.
Albeit that the sector as a whole grew significantly from its output a year previously, production of pig growing feed tumbled considerably to 29,800 tonnes, a drop of 5,700 tonnes or 16.1 per cent. There was also a 900 tonnes or 17.3 per cent decrease in pig starters and creep feed to 4,300 tonnes and a small 200 tonnes decline in pig protein concentrates. On the other hand, there was a substantial 11,200 tonnes or 15.9 per cent increase in pig finishing feed up to 81,700 tonnes; a
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2,000 tonnes or 5.8 per cent growth in pig breeding feed, up to 36,500 tonnes; and at 9,000 tonnes, link and early grower feed had risen by 1,700 tonnes or 23.3 per cent. Poultry feed production reached record levels in the month under review; the 517,400 tonnes produced in the timeframe was 10,200 tonnes or 2.0 per cent greater than the previous record from a year earlier. The 10 year average for November of 480,200 tonnes was also comfortably surpassed by 37,200 tonnes or 7.5 per cent. The general increase displayed by the sector was not enjoyed universally. Layer feed output fell 4,600 tonnes or 4.8 per cent to 90,600 tonnes and all other poultry feed decreased by 1,000 tonnes or 8.4 per cent as it dropped to 10,900 tonnes. The most substantial growth within the poultry feed sector came from integrated poultry units, whose output increased by 5,900 tonnes or 3.6 per cent to 169,000 tonnes. Chick rearing feed, at 12,300 tonnes, grew to its highest total for 10 years as it added 1,100 tonnes or 9.8 per cent on to its 2018 output, whilst broiler feed reached its highest ever output of 173,400 tonnes, an upturn of 5,200 tonnes or 3.1 per cent. Turkey feed output also dramatically increased compared to a year previously, with 3,100 tonnes or 10.8 per cent of growth bringing its production to 32,400 tonnes. Finally poultry breeding and rearing feed outstripped year earlier production by 400 tonnes or 1.4 per cent, up from 27,800 tonnes to 28,200 tonnes. Although, for the thirteenth month in succession, total sheep feed fell below its year earlier counterpart, doing so by 3,200 tonnes or 6.6 per cent, the 45,500 tonnes of output was enough to surpass the 10 year average for the month under review for the second time in a row, bettering the mean by 600 tonnes or 1.3 per cent.
Bar sheep protein concentrates, which remained stable at 600 tonnes of output, no elements of sheep feed production could match their year earlier outputs. There were some very minor shortfalls such as a 100 tonnes or 1.7 per cent decrease in blends for growing and finishing sheep and a 200 tonnes or 0.6 per cent decline in compounds for growing and finishing sheep, down to 5,800 tonnes and 31,100 tonnes respectively. Nonetheless, there were some more significant reductions. Most notably a 50.0 per cent drop in blends for breeding sheep, which fell from 1,600 tonnes to 800 tonnes and 1,900 tonnes or 20.7 per cent fall in compounds for breeding sheep, down to 7,300 tonnes of output.
At 14,400 tonnes of production, total horse feed had fallen to its
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