output by 1,200 tonnes or 12.5 per cent, the 10,800 tonnes of output was nowhere near high enough to outstrip the 10 year average for the month. As the second lowest total for the month since 1998, the current total was a considerable 1,800 tonnes or 15.4 per cent down on long term average. Total other feed production surpassed year previous production
by a considerable 6,700 tonnes or 31.0 per cent and rose to 28,300 tonnes. However, 2021’s output did not exceed the 10 year average for May which it was 1,800 tonnes or 6.2 per cent below.
NORTHERN IRELAND
March Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates during March 2021 in Northern Ireland amounted to 262,100 tonnes, a record high for the month and a substantial 34,600 tonnes or 15.2 per cent greater than the output of the corresponding month a year previously. Moreover, the current total was 35,500 tonnes above the decade long average for the month, a difference of 14.6 per cent. Total feed production during the month of March 2021 was made up
of: 54.3 per cent cattle and calf feed, 28.5 per cent poultry feed, 9.9 per cent pig feed, 4.8 per cent sheep feed and 2.6 per cent other feed. Total cattle and calf feed production in March had risen sharply
from a year earlier to a record high 142,300 tonnes, an increase of 23,500 tonnes or 19.8 per cent. The total under review also outstripped the decade long average for the month by 21,100 tonnes or 16.0 per cent. Asides from all other cattle compounds, where production fell
65 tonnes or 10.0 per cent to 585 tonnes of output, all subsectors of Northern Irish cattle feed production surpassed year earlier levels. Dairy cow compounds had risen to their highest ever level of 61,700 tonnes, a considerable growth on 2020’s return of 10,300 tonnes or 20.0 per cent. Beef coarse mixes and blends and dairy coarse mixes and blends both also increased significantly from year previous production, the former did so by 6,900 tonnes or 33.5 per cent to an output of 27,500 tonnes and the latter did so by 4,200 tonnes or 18.3 per cent, up to 27,100 tonnes. Moreover, beef cattle compounds, at 16,600 tonnes had increased by 1,900 tonnes or 12.9 per cent to 16,600 tonnes. Finally, other calf compounds and cattle protein compounds both increased production from year earlier levels by 100 tonnes, with other calf compounds rising 1.2 per cent to 8,600 tonnes and cattle protein compounds doubling to 200 tonnes. At 25,900 tonnes, total pig feed had also increased to record levels, surpassing its year earlier production by 5,500 tonnes or 27.0 per cent.
The 10 year average for the period was also bettered by an even greater 8,200 tonnes or 37.6 per cent. Despite the record production from the sector as a whole, there
were noticeable drops in output from two of the pig feed categories. Pig starter and creep feed production dropped 500 tonnes or 17.2 per cent to 2,400 tonnes whilst pig link and early grower feed fell 300 tonnes or 9.1 per cent to 3,000 tonnes. By contrast, pig finishing feed and pig growing feed both rose beyond year earlier outputs to post record high returns; additionally, pig breeding feed climbed to its second ever highest total. All the aforementioned comfortably outpaced their year earlier production levels: pig finishing feed did so by 3,500 tonnes or 44.3 per cent, up to 11,400 tonnes; pig growing feed did so by 2,000 tonnes or 54.1 per cent, up to 5,700 tonnes of output; and pig breeding feed did so by 700 tonnes or 23.9 per cent up to 3,400 tonnes. Surpassing its year earlier total 6,200 tonnes or 9.1 per cent, total
poultry feed rose to 74,700 tonnes, its third highest total for March on record. Additionally, the total under review exceeded the 10 year average for the month by 7,000 tonnes or 9.8 per cent. Only turkey and other poultry feed production failed to better its
year earlier returns; the 2,200 tonnes of output was a record low for the month and 1,400 tonnes or 38.9 per cent down on the production from the corresponding month of 2020. However, chick rearing feed was at its joint highest level for the month of 2,400 tonnes, an increase from a year previous of 200 tonnes or 9.1 per cent and layer and breeder feed was at its second highest total on record of 27,300 tonnes, 2,600 tonnes or 10.5 per cent higher than its respective year earlier total and a mere 100 tonnes below the all-time high from 2017. Finally, the largest poultry feed subsector by volume, broiler feed, surpassed year previous levels by 4,800 tonnes or 12.6 per cent, rising to 42,900 tonnes. Total sheep feed production, at 12,500 tonnes of output, outpaced
its corresponding year earlier returns by a considerable 1,400 tonnes or 12.6 per cent, and yet, the 2021 total exceeded the 10 year average by just 200 tonnes or 1.6 per cent, a reflection of the extremely low level of sheep feed production in March 2020. In spite of the general increase in output displayed by the sector
as a whole, more elements of sheep feed production fell below year earlier levels than rose above them. Coarse mixes or blends for sheep dropped by 100 tonnes or 5.0 per cent to 1,900 tonnes of output, whereas production of growing and finishing sheep compounds dropped by a third or 1,300 tonnes to a yield of 2,600 tonnes. Nonetheless, these decreases were compensated for by a substantial 2,900 tonnes or 56.9 per cent growth in breeding sheep compounds, up to 8,000 tonnes of production. At its lowest output for the month of March since 2002, total other
feed was the only sector to fall behind its year earlier total and did so by a significant 2,000 tonnes or 23.0 per cent, declining to 6,700 tonnes of production. Furthermore, the total under review also failed to better the decade long average for March, which it fell 1,100 tonnes or 15.2 per cent below.
NORTHERN IRELAND First Quarter Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates during the first quarter of 2021 in Northern Ireland amounted to 703,600 tonnes, the second highest total for the period on record and only the second
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