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cattle compounds dropped by 25.0 per cent or 100 tonnes down to 300 tonnes; beef coarse mixes or blends fell by 22.7 per cent or 3,400 tonnes to 11,600 tonnes; and dairy coarse mixes or blends declined by 19.1 per cent or 3,100 tonnes to 13,100 tonnes. The area of the sector with the largest volume of output, dairy cow compounds, also fell behind 2019’s returns, with the 49,100 tonnes of production in May 2020 being 2,200 tonnes or 4.3 per cent lower than a year earlier. A 600 tonnes or 6.4 per cent fall was also recorded in beef cattle compounds, down to 8,800 tonnes. Total pig feed was one of only two sectors to better year previous
outputs and in doing so it reached a record high 22,200 tonnes of production for May, up 1,100 tonnes or 5.2 per cent from the previous high set in the corresponding period of 2019. The decade long average for the month, of 16,200 tonnes, was also surpassed by a significant margin of 6,000 tonnes or 31.3 per cent. Although the sector as a whole rose to record levels, pig growing
feed output reduced by 18.2 per cent or 1,000 tonnes as it fell to 4,500 tonnes and pig breeding feed remained on a par with 2019 production at 3,100 tonnes – this was, however, a joint record high. Further record highs were achieved through the remainder of the sector with: pig finishing feed increasing by 1,300 tonnes or 17.1 per cent to 8,900 tonnes; pig link and early grower feed growing by 300 tonnes or 10.3 per cent to 3,200 tonnes; and pig starter and creep feed rising 400 tonnes or 19.1 per cent to 2,500 tonnes. Despite returns being comfortably above the long term average,
total poultry feed also suffered a decline in May production for the second year in succession. The current total dropped by a sizeable 8,300 tonnes or 10.7 per cent to 69,200 tonnes; however, 2020’s production did exceed the decade long mean for the month by 5,900 tonnes or 8.9 per cent. The majority of the decline in poultry feed production from year
previous levels occurred in layer and breeding feed. Output in this subsector dropped significantly from the record high of 2019 to 24,200 tonnes, a decrease of 7,000 tonnes or 22.4 per cent. The remainder of the fall was made up of a 1,400 tonnes or 3.4 per cent reduction in broiler feed production to 40,100 tonnes. In contrast, turkey and other poultry feed surpassed year previous production by 200 tonnes or 8.7
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per cent to 2,500 tonnes and chick rearing feed remained steady at 2,400 tonnes of output. Continuing the trend that it has set in each month of the calendar
year so far, total sheep feed surpassed year previous output. In this case, it did so by 500 tonnes or 15.6 per cent as it rose to 3,700 tonnes. Nevertheless, this increase in production was not enough to see it outstrip the 10 year average for May, which it fell 600 tonnes or 15.0 per cent below. There was a mixed picture from within the sheep feed sector.
On the one hand breeding sheep compounds lost half of its volume, dropping by 500 tonnes and on the other, output of growing and finishing sheep compounds rose by 1,000 tonnes to a record high 2,400 tonnes of production, an increase of 71.4 per cent. Finally, coarse mixes and blends for sheep grew by 100 tonnes or 14.3 per cent to 800 tonnes. Total other feed production in the month of May fell significantly
below both year earlier levels and the 10 year average for the period. 2020’s output, of 4,900 tonnes, was 2,000 tonnes or 30.0 per cent down on year previous production and this sizable downturn saw it fall 500 tonnes or 9.7 per cent short of the long term mean. In a similar pattern to the preceding months of the calendar
year there is a distinct split in Northern Irish feed production levels. Despite sheep feed continuing to surpass year earlier levels in 2020, the ruminant sectors overall remain below the long term average and in contrast, despite poultry feed falling below year previous levels, the non-ruminant sectors continue to exceed the long term average and, in the case of pig feed, be at historic highs.
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