feed, 10.0 per cent pig feed, 3.9 per cent other feed and 1.5 per cent sheep feed. At 110,200 tonnes, total cattle and calf feed production fell below
the outputs of both the previous two years. Despite dropping 3,000 tonnes or 2.7 per cent from the 113,200 tonnes of output from a year earlier, 2019 cattle and calf feed was still a sizeable 8,300 tonnes or 7.8 per cent above the average production values of the last 10 Novembers. Only other calf compounds, at 5,800 tonnes and dairy coarse mixes
or blends, at 20,500 tonnes, surpassed their year earlier production levels with the former increasing by 100 tonnes or 1.8 per cent and the latter by 400 tonnes or 2.0 per cent. All other sectors fell below their year earlier counterparts. The largest overall decline occurred in beef coarse mixes or blends which dropped 2,500 tonnes or 9.5 per cent while all other cattle compounds witnessed the greatest proportional loss, down 33.3 per cent to 400 tonnes. Both dairy cow compounds and beef cow compounds decreased by 400 tonnes when compared to the same month a year previously, a 2.5 per cent fall to 15,600 tonnes for dairy cow compounds and a 0.9 per cent fall in beef cow compounds to 44,200 tonnes. Total pig feed not only surpassed its year earlier total, doing
so by 700 tonnes or 3.5 per cent, but at 20,700 tonnes, also rose to unparalleled levels for month under review. Furthermore, 2019’s output was 3,700 tonnes or 19.6 per cent higher than the 10 year average for November of 17,000 tonnes. Whilst pig growing feed remained at its year earlier production levels of 3,400 tonnes, pig finishing feed was the sole subsector within
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pig feed unable to match its output from 2018, dropping 600 tonnes or 8.9 per cent to 8,100 tonnes. In contrast, pig starter and creep feed increased by 500 tonnes or 20.8 per cent to 2,900 tonnes and pig link and early grower feed production grew by 500 tonnes or 16.7 per cent to 3,500 tonnes, both subsectors rising to their highest ever output for the month. Finally, pig breeding feed rounded things off with a 300 tonnes or 12.0 per cent upturn to 2,800 tonnes. Total poultry feed fell 1,900 tonnes or 2.8 per cent under 2018’s
November return, which itself had also fallen significantly below the record high production amassed in 2017. However, thanks to markedly poorer performance in the first half of the past decade, 2019’s total of 65,200 tonnes was comfortably higher than the 10 year average, which it surpassed by 1,400 tonnes or 2.2 per cent. Despite the overall downturn there was a significant 1,700 tonnes
or 5.3 per cent increase in production of broiler feed which had grown from 32,400 tonnes to 34,100 tonnes, however, this was the only subsector that exceeded year earlier levels. Turkey and other poultry feed production was subject to the most significant decline, dropping 2,500 tonnes or 30.5 per cent to 5,700 tonnes. Layer and breeder feed suffered a less drastic decline of 800 tonnes or 3.3 per cent, falling to 23,500 tonnes whilst chick rearing feed dropped 200 tonnes or 9.5 per cent to 1,900 tonnes. November total sheep feed bettered its year earlier output for
the first time in 2019, doing so by 300 tonnes or 10.7 per cent with production rising to 3,100 tonnes. In spite of this fact, 2019’s output could not meet the 10 year average of 3,600 tonnes, being 500 tonnes or 14.9 per cent below it. Although the overall picture for sheep feed was positive in
November 2019 there were still declines of 400 tonnes apiece witnessed in breeding sheep compounds and coarse mixes or blends for sheep, dropping by 57.1 per cent to 300 tonnes and 33.3 per cent to 800 tonnes respectively. However, these production decreases were more than compensated for by a 1,000 tonnes or 111.1 per cent growth in growing and finishing sheep compounds, which at 1,900 tonnes, had risen to its highest output since 2012. Finally, total other feed surpassed both its year earlier counterpart
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and the 10 year mean with its production of 8,100 tonnes. The current output was 700 tonnes or 8.6 per cent higher than 2018’s return and an even greater 1,000 tonnes or 13.2 per cent above the 10 year average for November. Despite total feed production failing to surpass year earlier output,
in contrast with the previous month, production was still at historically high levels. Cattle and calf feed continued to fall markedly below year previous levels as it has done for all but two of the 11 months this calendar year. Furthermore, and in spite of its recent rally, sheep feed remains at a long term low. In contrast, pig feed production once again reached unprecedented levels and other feed surpassed year previous production as it has done repeatedly throughout 2019. Poultry feed output continued to fluctuate above and below 2018 levels with the latest downturn seeing it sit slightly below the tonnage output it was at this time last year.
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