lowest level since 1992. Having fallen for the third year in succession and by 400 tonnes or 2.7 per cent, 2019’s total was 1,700 tonnes or 11.2 per cent beneath the 10 year average for November of 16,100 tonnes. Other feed production plummeted dramatically from the record high for the month amassed a year earlier. The 34,900 tonnes of output was 8,900 tonnes or 20.3 per cent lower than 2018’s return. Furthermore, in spite of bettering the production rates of five of the months within the timeframe, the current total was 300 tonnes or 0.9 per cent below the average of the last 10 Novembers. Whilst production continues to fall below year earlier levels and cumulatively sits comfortably below outputs at this point in 2018, total feed production remains at historically high levels. There is still a noticeable contrast between the pig and poultry sectors, which continue to surpass or at least flirt with record outputs, and the ruminant sectors. However, with cattle and calf feed outputs being maintained around the long term average, as they have all year and sheep feed production beginning to surpass the mean, perhaps the wet summer/ autumn will have resulted in a resurgence of feed production figures within these sectors.
NORTHERN IRELAND September Production
Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates during the month of September reached 178,000 tonnes, which was a significant 26,200 tonnes or 12.8 per cent below the record high for the month that was amassed a year earlier. However, due to the substantially lower outputs recorded in the opening years of the past decade, the current total was 7,900 tonnes or 4.5 per cent greater than the 10 year average for September.
Total feed production during the month of September 2019 was made up of: 46.1 per cent cattle and calf feed, 37.2 per cent poultry feed, 11.9 per cent pig feed, 3.7 per cent other feed and 1.2 per cent sheep feed.
For the second year in succession, September cattle and calf feed production fell below year earlier levels. However, on this occasion it did so by a substantial 17,900 tonnes or 17.9 per cent, with output dropping to 82,000 tonnes. Furthermore, cattle and calf feed production for the month was 200 tonnes or 0.2 per cent below its 10 year average. With the exception of all other cattle compounds and protein concentrates for cattle, which both remained at their respective year earlier outputs of 300 tonnes and 100 tonnes, all subsectors of cattle and calf feed fell short of their production in 2018. Other calf compounds saw their output drop by just under a quarter to 4,300 tonnes, a 1,400 tonnes or 24.6 per cent decrease. Feed production for dairy cows also suffered significant declines as dairy cow compounds at 38,000 tonnes fell by 6,800 tonnes or 15.2 per cent and dairy coarse mixes or blends fell by 1,300 tonnes or 8.3 per cent to 14,300 tonnes. It was a similar story in the beef feed sector in which production of beef coarse mixes or blends plummeted by 5,000 tonnes or 25.1 per cent from a year previously to 14,900 tonnes and production of beef cattle compounds
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had also decreased by over a quarter to 10,000 tonnes, a fall of 3,500 tonnes or 25.9 per cent. Total production of pig feed in September fell slightly below the output of a year earlier, the 21,200 tonnes sitting just 600 tonnes or 2.8 per cent below the record high from 2018. The current total was however, enough to considerably exceed the 10 year average for the month, doing so by 4,800 tonnes or 25.5 per cent. Despite the overall drop from a year previously the majority of pig feed sectors surpassed their 2018 returns. Pig link and early grower feed and pig growing feed both increased production by 500 tonnes with the former rising by 18.5 per cent to 3,200 tonnes and the latter by 11.9 per cent to 4,700 tonnes. There was also a sizable rise in the amount of pig starter and creep feed produced, which, at 2,700 tonnes had grown by 800 tonnes or 42.1 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier. Nonetheless, these increases were not enough to combat the considerable 1,900 tonnes or 19.6 per cent drop in pig finishing feed to 7,800 tonnes coupled with a 500 tonnes or 15.6 per cent fall in pig breeding feed to 2,700 tonnes. At 66,200 tonnes, total poultry feed also fell behind the record output for September, amassed in 2018, doing so by 6,800 tonnes or 9.3 per cent. Nevertheless, the 10 year mean of 63,400 tonnes was bettered by 2,800 tonnes or 4.3 per cent.
Only layer and breeder feed outstripped its corresponding total of 24,200 tonnes from a year earlier, doing so by 2,400 tonnes or 9.9 per cent, with production rising to 26,600 tonnes. The most extensive decline in production was seen in broiler feed which at 34,800 tonnes had fallen 7,500 tonnes or 17.7 per cent. Additionally, there was a 1,400 tonnes or 31.8 per cent downturn in turkey and other poultry feed to 3,000 tonnes and a 300 tonnes or 14.3 per cent decrease in chick rearing feed to 1,800 tonnes. September sheep feed production dropped to its lowest level since 1997, moreover, the 2,200 tonnes was the third lowest output for the month on record and 1,300 tonnes or 37.1 per cent below the total amassed a year earlier. 2019’s total was also 800 tonnes or 30.8 per cent down on the 10 year average for September. Production of breeding compounds for sheep effectively plummeted to near zero from the 900 tonnes produced a year before. Furthermore, coarse mixes or blends for sheep lost half of their output when compared to the same timeframe of 2018, down to 600 tonnes.
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