Poultry feed takes over pig feed in European Union

For the first time ever in the European Union (EU), poultry feed overtook pig feed to become the leading segment of compound feed. According to the preliminary statistical data provided by Fefac members, the compound feed production in the EU-27 in 2010 may have reached a level of 149 million tonnes, which is about 0.5 percent above the figure for 2009 (148.2 m. t).

This positive result is exclusively due to an increased demand for poultry feed (+three percent), whereas the pig feed production fell back by one percent and the cattle feed production remained stable. The most important factor which has weighed in on the EU feed demand in 2010 was the dramatic crisis affecting the pig sector, aggravated by the high feed materials costs, which triggered a contraction of the demand for efficient pig feed. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.