Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey
GREAT BRITAIN May Production Update Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during May 2021 amounted to 1,055,800 tonnes, a record for the month. This was a substantial increase of 87,900 tonnes or 9.1 per cent from the corresponding month a year previously. The total under review was also 42,800 tonnes or 4.1 per cent greater than the 10 year average for May. Total feed production during the month of May 2021 was made up
of: 48.1 per cent poultry feed, 28.4 per cent cattle and calf feed, 14.4 per cent pig feed, 5.4 per cent sheep feed, 1.0 per cent horse feed and 2.7 per cent other feed. At 299,800 tonnes, total cattle and calf feed production had risen
by a significant 29,300 tonnes or 10.8 per cent from the levels amassed a year earlier. 2021’s output was a much less considerable 5,100 tonnes or 1.7 per cent higher than the decade long average for the month, which reflects the historically low output of May 2020. All but one sector of cattle feed production surpassed year earlier
output. Only cattle protein concentrates, which in contrast with the rest of the sector was at record high levels in 2020, had production below that of a year previously, dropping 200 tonnes or 2.9 per cent to 6,600 tonnes. Proportionally, the all other cattle compounds subsector increased by the greatest margin from a year previous; the 38,500 tonnes of production was 4,900 tonnes or 14.6 per cent higher than the atypically low 2020 total. The largest cattle feed subsector, compounds for dairy cows, also rose substantially from a year earlier to 164,100 tonnes, an increase of 20,200 tonnes or 14.0 per cent, as did total calf feed, which surpassed its corresponding total from a year previous by 1,500 tonnes or 11.1 per cent to 15,000 tonnes. There were more conservative gains from both blends for dairy cows and all other cattle blends which grew by 2,600 tonnes or 5.4 per cent to 51,000 tonnes and by 300 tonnes or 1.2 per cent to 24,700 tonnes, respectively. Total pig feed production climbed to its highest level for May since 1999, the 151,600 tonnes of output was 5,000 tonnes or 3.4 per cent
above the production of a year previous. Additionally, the current total was 7,000 tonnes or 4.7 per cent greater than the decade long average for the month under review. Despite the overall increase, as many pig feed subsectors fell
below their respective year earlier returns as increased beyond them. Pig protein concentrates production dropped by over a half to 300 tonnes, a 400 tonnes or 57.1 per cent decline, whilst, pig starters and creep feed production also fell 400 tonnes from its 2020 output to 4,100 tonnes, an 8.9 per cent fall; both of these categories had fallen for the second year in succession. Pig growing feed fell by 1,600 tonnes or 5.6 per cent to 27,100 tonnes. On the other hand, pig finishing feed rose to 76,800 tonnes, its second highest level on record behind the output of 1998 only, an increase of 5,900 tonnes or 8.3 per cent on the previous year. Furthermore, link and early grower feed increased to its joint highest total of 8,200 tonnes, however, this was as the result of a more moderate 100 tonnes or 1.2 per cent rise. Pig breeding feed rounded off the sector with a 1,500 tonnes or 4.5 per cent growth in output, up to 35,200 tonnes. A record high 507,900 tonnes of poultry feed, including integrated
poultry units, was produced in the May of 2021. This was 29,300 tonnes or 6.1 per cent greater than in the corresponding month a year earlier. The total under review was slightly less advanced of the 10 year average but was nevertheless a significant 25,600 tonnes or 5.2 per cent above it. In direct contrast with the record high production of the sector as a
whole, turkey feed production fell to its lowest ever output for May of 6,600 tonnes, a decrease of 2,300 tonnes or 25.8 per cent. Moreover, chick rearing feed, at 9,900 tonnes, had dropped by 1,000 tonnes or 9.2 per cent to its lowest level since 2006 while, at the same time, poultry protein concentrates declined for the second year in a row to 300 tonnes, a drop of 100 tonnes or 25.0 per cent. On the contrary, broiler chicken feed rose to an unparalleled 171,600 tonnes, a sharp increase of 15,500 tonnes or 9.9 per cent while integrated poultry unit production rose by 7,500 tonnes or 4.6 per cent coincidentally also to 171,600 tonnes, a five year high for the sector. Additionally, layer feed output grew by 3,900 tonnes or 4.4 per cent to 92,500 tonnes, its second highest total for the month. Finally, all other poultry feed production increased by a considerable 4,500 tonnes or 19.5 per cent to 27,600 tonnes whilst poultry breeding and rearing feed rose by 1,300 tonnes or 4.9 per cent to 27,800 tonnes. A considerable 16,200 tonnes or 39.3 per cent increase in total
sheep feed production for May brought output to its second highest total on record of 57,400 tonnes, behind only the anomalous total of 2013. The current total was a smaller but nevertheless substantial 8,700 tonnes or 16.4 per cent above the 10 year average for May. All elements of sheep feed production rose from their year earlier
levels. Compounds for breeding sheep more than doubled to the record high total for the month of May of 14,500 tonnes, an increase of 7,700 tonnes or 113.2 per cent from a year earlier. Compounds for growing and finishing sheep and blends for growing and finishing sheep both also grew sharply from year previous returns with the former rising by 7,100 tonnes or 24.4 per cent to 36,200 tonnes and the latter by 900 tonnes or 20.9 per cent to 5,200 tonnes, a joint record high for the month. Blends for breeding sheep and sheep protein concentrates both surpassed year previous outputs by 67.0 per cent, rising by 400 tonnes to 1,000 tonnes and 200 tonnes to 500 tonnes of production respectively. Although, total horse feed comfortably bettered its year earlier
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