Feed Production Update
By Ryan Mounsey
This issue’s column concentrates exclusively on data for Great Britain since, at the time of going to press the figures for Northern Ireland had not been updated since the end of May.
GREAT BRITAIN July Production Overview Total production of compounds, blends and concentrates, including integrated poultry units, during the month of July 2019 fell to 1,014,400 tonnes, its lowest level since 2016. Despite being the third highest tonnage output ever for July, this was 71,200 tonnes or 6.6 per cent lower than the record total amassed in the same month a year previously. Nevertheless, the current month’s production was 17,300 tonnes or 1.7 per cent greater than the 10 year average for the month in question. Total feed production during the month of July 2019 was made up
of: 50.6 per cent poultry feed; 27.4 per cent cattle and calf feed; 15.2 per cent pig feed; 3.2 per cent other feed; 2.7 per cent sheep feed; and 0.9 per cent horse feed. Cattle and calf feed production failed to come close to the record
output of 315,800 tonnes that was reached in July 2018 with the 277,700 tonnes produced being 38,100 tonnes or 12.1 per cent below it. Furthermore, 2019’s total could not match the 10 year average for the month, being a significant 7,800 tonnes or 2.7 per cent lower. Notwithstanding a 600 tonne or 10.0 per cent increase in cattle
protein concentrates to 6,600 tonnes, all cattle and calf feed sectors fell below their year earlier counterparts for July. The largest drop came from all cattle compounds, whose production slipped to 35,700 tonnes, 11,800 tonnes or 24.8 per cent lower than in 2018. Total calf feed production dropped below 10,000 tonnes for the month for the first time since 2006 with the total of 9,800 tonnes sitting 3,700 tonnes or 27.4 per cent below year previous returns. Compounds for dairy cows,
at 159,400 tonnes, were a sizeable 10,400 tonnes or 6.1 per cent down from year earlier levels. Finally, both blends for dairy cows and all other cattle blends also fell, doing so respectively by 7,300 tonnes or 12.9 per cent to reach 49,500 tonnes, and 5,600 tonnes or 25.1 per cent to reach 16,700 tonnes. The only feed sector to surpass its year earlier levels for July was
pig feed, achieving its highest output for the month since 2000. At 153,700 tonnes, production was 9,100 tonnes or 6.3 per cent higher than it was in the same month of 2018. The 10 year average for July of 137,100 tonnes was also bettered by 16,600 tonnes or 12.1 per cent. In direct contrast to cattle feed, only one component of pig feed
could not match its respective returns of 2018; this was a 300 tonnes or 5.5 per cent drop in pig starters and creep feed to 5,200 tonnes. Pig finishing feed saw output increase by 5,500 tonnes or 7.6 per cent from a year previously with 2019 production amounting to 77,600 tonnes. Link and early grower feed and pig protein concentrates both grew by the relatively small amounts of 400 and 100 tonnes to reach 8,700 tonnes and 800 tonnes respectively. The sector was rounded off by a 2,200 tonnes or 6.8 per cent increase in pig breeding feed, whose total rose to 34,600 tonnes and a 1,100 tonnes or 4.3 per cent increase in pig growing feed, whose total rose to 26,700 tonnes. Regardless of the fact that poultry feed production, including
integrated poultry units, in the current July was at its third highest output since records began, it still could not surpass the production of a year previous with the 513,600 tonnes produced falling 12,200 tonnes or 2.3 per cent below 2018’s return. However, the 10 year average was surpassed by a significant 16,300 tonnes or 3.3 per cent. Chick rearing feed matched the output of a year earlier to remain
at 10,200 tonnes of production whilst layer feed, at 90,600 tonnes, had grown by 2,200 tonnes or 2.5 per cent. Poultry protein concentrates had also advanced from 2018 levels, doing so by 500 tonnes or 125 per cent to bring production to 900 tonnes. All other poultry feed dropped by 100 tonnes to 55,500 tonnes whereas the remainder of the sector fell at a more considerable rate. Integrated poultry units fell 7,700 tonnes or 4.7 per cent to 156,500 tonnes; broiler chicken feed decreased by 5,100 tonnes or 3.0 per cent to 162,600 tonnes; poultry breeding and rearing feed dropped 1,200 tonnes or 4.4 per cent to 26,200 tonnes and; turkey feed, at 11,100 tonnes fell by 700 tonnes or 5.9 per cent. Total sheep feed production dropped a substantial 40.1 per cent
from the anomalous 45,900 tonnes amassed in July 2018 to 27,500 tonnes, a fall of 18,400 tonnes. Additionally, the 2019 total was 600 tonnes or 2.1 per cent lower than the 10 year average for the period. However, it should be borne in mind that 2018’s return, which was 16,000 tonnes above the next highest total, has skewed the mean significantly. Protein concentrates, as they had in every other sector, grew from
year earlier returns once again in the sheep feed sector, on this occasion from 300 tonnes to 500 tonnes. In contrast, all other constituents of sheep feed had decreased dramatically from year previous production. The bulk of the drop from year previous levels was made up of compounds for growing and finishing sheep, which saw their July 2018 returns subside by 14,900 tonnes in the month under review, a fall of 42.5 per
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