timeframe of 177,900 tonnes. While on the one hand protein concentrates for sheep doubled in


comparison to year earlier levels, from 800 tonnes to 1600 tonnes – on the other, blends for breeding sheep halved, with production dropping to 2,900 tonnes. It was the latter that typified the trend displayed by sheep feed in Q2 overall. Compounds for breeding sheep saw its output drop by 42.0 per cent or 31,800 tonnes to slump to 43,900 tonnes. Moreover, compounds for growing and finishing sheep sat 20,100 tonnes or 17.9 per cent down on the production rates from the period a year earlier with the current output amounting to 92,400 tonnes. Lastly, blends for growing and finishing sheep, at 15,200 tonne, displayed a 1,900 tonnes or 11.1 per cent drop from 2018 Q2 levels. The 36,600 tonnes of horse feed production was the lowest output


for the period since the turn of the millennium. Sitting 6,000 tonnes or 14.1 per cent below the previous year’s second quarter returns, the current total was also 4,100 tonnes or 10.1 per cent lower than the 10 year average for the time frame. Other feed was also at historically low levels with 2019’s Q2


output being larger than only two of the last 10 years. The previous year’s second quarter total was 6,500 tonnes or 6.4 per cent greater than the current production of 95,300 tonnes and, in addition, the average for the last 10 years was 3,300 tonnes of 3.3 per cent greater than 2019’s results. Once again we see a disparity between the ruminant and non-


ruminant feed sectors; however, the non-ruminant components are not performing as strongly as they had been earlier in the year. Pig feed production managed to surpass year earlier levels and poultry feed comfortably outperformed the average for the period. In direct contrast sheep feed, as it had in the first quarter, fell below the general trend and cattle and calf only just manage to surpass it by 0.2 per cent. As seen in July, protein concentrates stood out due to their atypical growth, not only when compared to a year earlier but historically as well.


Half Year Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during the first six months of 2019 amounted to 6,858,800 tonnes, 221,900 tonnes or 3.1 per cent lower than the output from the corresponding period a year earlier. Despite the significant fall in comparison to 2018’s figures, the current returns are the nevertheless the second highest on record and stand 203,600 tonnes or 3.1 per cent greater than the 10 year average for the timeframe. Total feed production during the first half of 2019 was made up of:


45.1 per cent poultry feed; 29.9 per cent cattle and calf feed; 13.5 per cent pig feed; 7.3 per cent sheep feed; 3.0 per cent other feed; and 1.2 per cent horse feed. 2019’s half year cattle feed production sat 3.5 per cent below the


levels amassed a year previously with the 2,050,300 tonnes of output being 73,700 tonnes lower than 2018’s return. The current total was, however, greater than those seen at this stage of both 2017and 2016 and furthermore, surpassed the 10 year average for the period by 27,400


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tonnes or 1.4 per cent. There has been an inconsistent trend across the cattle and calf


feed sector for the first half of 2019. The largest single component of this category, compounds for dairy cows, which accounts for over half of the entire feed produced for cattle and calf, grew by 15,100 tonnes or 1.5 per cent to 1,035,700 tonnes. Protein concentrates for cattle and calves also surpassed its relative year earlier levels and did so by a substantial margin to reach 47,600 tonnes at the half year mark, an increase of 13,600 tonnes or 40.0 per cent. All remaining sectors fell below their year earlier counterparts. The largest drop was displayed by all calf feed whose production of 81,900 tonnes was 31,200 tonnes or 27.6 per cent below the levels achieved by the end of June 2018. Furthermore, neither blends for dairy cows and all other cattle feed could reach their year earlier levels, with production at 403,200 tonnes and 333,300 tonnes respectively, decreases of 34,900 tonnes or 8.0 per cent and 20,700 tonnes or 5.9 per cent. The sector’s half year performance figures are rounded off by a 15,400 tonnes or 9.4 per cent fall in all other cattle blends to 148,700 tonnes. 924,300 tonnes of pig feed were produced in the first six months


of 2019, the largest amount for the timeframe since the first half of the year 2000. The current total is 26,800 tonnes or 3.0 per cent greater than it was at this stage a year previously. 2019’s total was also a substantial 77,000 tonnes higher than the 10 year average for the first half of the year, an increase of 9.1 per cent. In contrast to the prevailing trend in feed production the majority


of pig feed subsectors improved beyond the levels they reached at this point a year earlier. Only link and early grower feed could not match the production of 2018 with output falling 4,200 tonnes or 8.8 per cent to 43,600 tonnes. An extra 5,700 tonnes of pig finishing feed saw its total increase by 1.3 per cent to 460,000 tonnes and an additional 5,300 tonnes of pig starters and creep feed saw its total increase by 23.3 per cent to 28,000 tonnes. Pig breeding feed attained 213,000 tonnes of production whilst pig growing feed amounted to 173,600 tonnes, with the former expanding by 11,000 tonnes or 5.5 per cent and the latter by 12,300 tonnes or 7.6 per cent. Finally, pig protein concentrates, at 6,200 tonnes outstripped year previous production for the first half of the year by 1,800 tonnes or 40.9 per cent. Despite being the second highest total on record, 2019’s H1 poultry feed production fell below year earlier levels for the first time since 2014.


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