NORTHERN IRELAND December 2020 Production Overview
Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates during December 2020 in Northern Ireland was a considerable 17,400 tonnes or 8.0 per cent higher than in the corresponding month a year previously. At 234,600 tonnes of output, production for December was at its highest level since records began in their current form. The current total was slightly less advanced of the 10 year average for the month, which it bettered by 17,100 tonnes or 7.6 per cent. Total feed production during the month of December 2020 was
made up of: 55.7 per cent cattle and calf feed, 29.7 per cent poultry feed, 9.2 per cent pig feed, 2.0 per cent sheep feed and 3.4 per cent other feed. At 130,600 tonnes, total cattle and calf feed surpassed its year
earlier output by a significant 11,600 tonnes or 9.8 per cent. This was a record total for December, bettering the previous high from 2017 by just 100 tonnes. Mirroring the pattern witnessed across the Northern Irish feed production sectors as a whole in December, total cattle a calf feed for the month under review was slightly less ahead, 10,900 tonnes or 8.7 per cent, of the 10 year average for the month. In spite of the record total and the sizeable overall increase from
a year previous, beef cattle compounds dropped 200 tonnes or 1.2 per cent to 16,800 tonnes. However, all other sectors of cattle and calf feed surpassed year earlier returns. The largest subdivision, dairy cow compounds, rose to a record high 52,100 tonnes for the month, an increase of 3,600 tonnes or 7.4 per cent. Other calf compounds also grew to an unparalleled level of 8,300 tonnes, bettering 2019’s output by 1,400 tonnes or 20.3 per cent. Beef coarse mixes and blends and dairy coarse mixes both surpassed year previous outputs by similar tonnage margins, with the former doing so by 3,300 tonnes or 13.4 per cent, up to 28,000 tonnes, and the latter by 3,200 tonnes or 15.1 per cent, up to 24,400 tonnes. Finally, all other cattle compounds increased by just under 100 tonnes to 700 tonnes. Total pig feed production in December rose by 2,400 tonnes or
12.5 per cent from a year earlier to 21,600 tonnes. Despite output falling below that of two of the past three years, the 10 year average for the month under review was comfortably outstripped by 2,700
tonnes or 13.3 per cent. Although 2020 December pig feed rose considerably as a whole,
both pig starter and creep feed and pig link and early grower feed failed to match their respective year earlier outputs. Pig starter and creep feed dropped a sizeable 600 tonnes or 19.4 per cent to 2,500 tonnes whilst pig link and early grower feed fell by 300 tonnes or 8.8 per cent to 3,100 tonnes. On the other hand, pig finishing feed production increased by a sizeable 2,000 tonnes or 29.9 per cent to 8,700 tonnes of output and pig growing feed returned to the production levels expected for the month over the recent years as 2020 output surpassed the output of a year previous by 700 tonnes or 20.6 per cent to reach 4,100 tonnes. Additionally, pig breeding feed, at 3,200 tonnes had bettered 2019’s respective output by 500 tonnes or 18.5 per cent.
Following on from the sharp fall in production between 2018 and
2019, total poultry feed for December increased by 3,600 tonnes or 5.4 per cent to reach 69,700 tonnes of output. The decade long average for the month was also outpaced by a similar 3,700 tonnes or 5.5 per cent. The entirety of the poultry feed sector surpassed the production
levels of a year previously. Chick rearing feed increased to record highs in the process of 2,600 tonnes, a growth of 400 tonnes or 18.2 per cent. The sector also included: a 400 tonnes or 7.6 per cent increase in turkey and other poultry feed, up to 5,700 tonnes; an 800 tonnes or 3.2 per cent rise in layer and breeder feed, up to 25,800 tonnes; and a 2,000 tonnes or 6.0 per cent growth in broiler feed, up to 35,600 tonnes. Having fallen below its year previous output for the past two years
running, 2020 December total sheep feed production arrested the trend by climbing to 4,700 tonnes, an increase of 400 tonnes or 9.3 per cent. Nevertheless, production was still at historically low levels and as such, fell below the 10 year average for the month by 400 tonnes or 8.2 per cent. Only coarse mixes or blends for sheep failed to exceed the output
of the corresponding month a year earlier which, at 800 tonnes of production, it dropped 300 tonnes or 27.3 per cent below. In contrast, growing and finishing sheep compounds reached its highest output for 8 years as production rose by 200 tonnes or 9.1 per cent to 2,400 tonnes. Breeding sheep compounds also increased considerably from year previous levels to 1,500 tonnes, a growth of 500 tonnes or 50.0 per cent. Total other feed was the only sector that failed to better its year
earlier returns. Production dropped 600 tonnes or 7.0 per cent below that of 2019 to 8,000 tonnes. However, this output was great enough to better the average of the last 10 Decembers, which it did so by 300 tonnes or 3.8 per cent. The animal feed production sector ended what has been a
challenging year in a remarkably healthy condition. With overall output at record levels and all bar one of the sectors bettering the
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