Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey
GREAT BRITAIN August Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates during the month of August 2018 amounted to 1,117,000 tonnes, a record for the month in question, having surpassed the previous year’s total by 47,700 tonnes or 4.5 per cent. Additionally the current August total stood 96,000 tonnes higher than the 10 year average for the month, an increase of 9.5 per cent. Total feed production during the month of August 2018 was made
up of: 46.1 per cent poultry feed, 30.7 per cent cattle and calf feed, 13.0 per cent pig feed, 4.4 per cent sheep feed, 3.8 per cent other feed and 1.1 per cent horse feed. Total cattle and calf feed reached a record 343,100 tonnes in
August, surpassing the previous high for the month, registered in 1995, by a total of 8,000 tonnes or 2.4 per cent. The 2018 total also stands a significant 35,400 tonnes or 11.5 per cent above the output registered a year previously and 44,500 tonnes or 14.9 per cent above the 10 year average for the period. Apart from total calf feed, whose total remained static from a
year earlier at 13,900 tonnes, all other sectors of cattle and calf feed increased by a considerable amount from August 2017. There was a 13,700 tonnes or 8.4 per cent increase in compounds for dairy cows, rising to 176,100 tonnes, while all other cattle compounds, reaching 57,200 tonnes, also grew by a significant 11,100 tonnes or 24.1 per cent. Additionally, there were considerable rises in: blends for dairy cows, up 3,000 tonnes or 5.0 per cent to 63,000 tonnes; all other cattle blends, up 4,900 tonnes or 24.0 per cent to 25,300 tonnes; and cattle protein concentrates, up 2,800 tonnes or 57.1 per cent to 7,700 tonnes. In contrast, total pig feed production fell 8,400 tonnes below the
August’s 2017 total to 144,700 tonnes, a decrease of 5.5 per cent. Despite this sizeable fall in production, 2018’s output was nevertheless
9,900 tonnes or 7.3 per cent greater than the 10 year average for the month.
With pig protein concentrates production matching 2017 levels at
800 tonnes, pig breeding feed was the only division to advance from year earlier levels. It did so by reaching 33,100 tonnes of production, an increase of 800 tonnes or 2.5 per cent. None of the remaining pig feed sectors could match production rates from a year previous, with the most notable fall coming in the form of a 6,200 tonnes or 7.9 per cent reduction in pig finishing feed, which slumped to 72,800 tonnes of output; however, it is worth observing that no month has previously come close to the 79,000 tonnes of pig finishing feed manufactured in 2017. There were also sizeable drops in pig growing feed and link and early grower feed, with the former falling by 1,200 tonnes or 6.1 per cent and the latter by 900 tonnes or 10.8 per cent, to 26,300 tonnes and 7,400 tonnes respectively. Only the 530,000 tonnes amassed in the August of 2016 surpassed
the 515,500 tonnes of poultry feed produced in the current year, making it the second highest total on record since they began in 1992. Whilst not a record haul, 2018’s August total did surpass its year earlier efforts by 9,300 tonnes or 1.8 per cent. It also bettered the 10 year average for the time frame by 27,600 tonnes or 5.7 per cent. In contrast with the general trend, a 700 tonnes or 5.9 per cent
drop from year earlier levels in chick rearing feed to 11,100 tonnes was accompanied by a more substantial fall of 2,800 tonnes or 6.4 per cent to 41,000 tonnes of all other poultry feed; however, the remaining poultry sectors all rose from their 2017 levels. The most notable increase was seen in broiler feed output, which grew by 10,200 tonnes or 6.5 per cent from August’s 2017 production to 167,900 tonnes. Layer feed also climbed considerably to 93,600 tonnes, a growth of 5,700 tonnes or 6.5 per cent. Poultry breeding and rearing feed and turkey feed both posted 1,000 tonne increases on year previous output expanding to 27,600 tonnes and 15,400 tonnes respectively, increases of 3.8 per cent and 6.9 per cent. A huge record was set in sheep feed production, with the total
of 49,300 tonnes amassed in the month, 14,600 tonnes greater than the previous high set in 2006. 2018’s total also sat 16,700 tonnes or 51.2 per cent above the amount produced a year previously and 20,100 tonnes or 68.8 per cent above the 10 year average for August. Unsurprisingly after such a record, all categories of sheep feed
increased from their respective year earlier outputs. Compounds for growing and finishing sheep did so by 13,700 tonnes or 59.8 per cent, rising to 36,600 tonnes. Blends for growing and finishing sheep, at 7,600 tonnes of production, had grown by 800 tonnes or 11.8 per cent, while a 300 tonnes or 43.9 per cent increase was seen in blends for breeding sheep, rising to 1,000 tonnes. Furthermore, sheep protein concentrates doubled their output from a year previous to 400 tonnes. Horse feed production saw a sharp 11.4 increase from year
earlier levels, growing by 1,300 tonnes to reach 12,700 tonnes of production, a joint record for the month along with the August of 2011. This month’s horse feed production also beat the 10 year average for the period under review by 1,000 tonnes or 8.6 per cent. Other feed was the only sector to fall behind both its year previous output and the 10 year average for the month. The 42,000 tonnes
PAGE 4 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 FEED COMPOUNDER
Comment section is sponsored by Compound Feed Engineering Ltd
www.cfegroup.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68
