PROVEN: GRAVITY
Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey GREAT BRITAIN
Second Quarter/First Half Overview All first half figures should be viewed in the context of January 2020 including an extra week compared to 2019 and the majority of years (occasionally, a statisical year will include 53 weeks - invariably allocating 5 weeks to the month of January - in order to take account of leap years - and 2020 is one such statistical year).
Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during the second quarter of 2020 amounted to 3,201,200 tonnes, the lowest total for the period of the last five years. 2020’s output was 37,000 tonnes or 1.1 per cent lower than production from the respective timeframe a year earlier. It was just 600 tonnes or 0.02 per cent below the 10 year average for Q2. The completion of the second quarter brought total feed production for the first half of 2020 to 5,887,400 tonnes, the second highest total on record and 40,900 tonnes or 0.7 per cent greater than a year earlier. 2020’s half year total was also 354,200 tonnes or 6.2 per cent higher than the 10 year average for the period. Total feed production during the second quarter of 2020 was made
up of: 48.7 per cent poultry feed, 28.0 per cent cattle and calf feed, 14.8 per cent pig feed, 5.1 per cent sheep feed, 1.0 per cent horse feed and 2.5 per cent other feed. For the second year in succession, total cattle and calf feed
production in the second quarter failed to better year previous levels. Current output fell 26,100 tonnes or 2.8 per cent below 2019’s total, as it dropped to 894,800 tonnes and this fall was enough to see production
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slip below the 10 year average for the timeframe which it did by 27,600 tonnes or 3.0 per cent. Half year total cattle and calf feed was at its lowest level for four
years and was 34,900 tonnes or 1.7 per cent below output at this stage a year earlier. Additionally, the current total was 17,700 tonnes or 0.9 per cent below the decade long average for the first half of the year. Despite the overall drop in Q2 cattle and calf feed production
compared with a year earlier, as many components of the sector bettered their year earlier levels as fell below them. All other cattle blend rose significantly above 2019’s returns, increasing production by almost a quarter – the 76,400 tonnes of output was 15,100 tonnes or 24.6 per cent greater than a year previously. All calf feed also increased considerably from the same period a year earlier, doing so by 6,900 tonnes or 19.3 per cent to reach 42,700 tonnes. A slightly smaller growth of 3,500 tonnes or 2.1 per cent occurred in blends for dairy cows as its total rose to 166,700 tonnes. However, these increases were more than cancelled out by a 39,100 tonnes or 7.6 per cent fall in compounds for dairy cows whose total decreased to 477,500 tonnes. There were further declines from a year previously in both all other cattle feed, down 11,000 tonnes or 9.0 per cent to 110,800 tonnes and protein concentrates for cattle, down 1,400 tonnes or 6.3 per cent to 20,700 tonnes. At 472,400 tonnes of production, total Q2 pig feed had risen to its highest level since the year 2000, surpassing its corresponding year
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