Compared to 2021, global compound feed production fell by 0.4% last year to 1.266 billion tonnes. Compound feed production grew in several regions, including Latin (1.9%) and North America, Oceania (0.32%), while declining in Europe (4.6%), Africa and the Asia-Pacific region (0.5%) according to Alltech Agri-Food Outlook feed production survey data.
Production of laying food increased by 0.31 percent last year. Avian influenza, other diseases and high raw material prices have affected the sector in many markets, especially in Asia, Europe and Africa, but the growth of the sector has been fuelled by even greater challenges in other sectors, which led to a jump in demand for eggs.
Broiler feed production grew by 1.27% last year, mostly in the Middle East, North and Latin America.
In 2022, due to rising raw material prices and production costs, the increasing incidence of African swine fever, pig feed production was 3% lower.
The increase in the cost of feed and the relatively low cost of milk have led to a 1.30% reduction in the production of feed for dairy cattle. Farmers reduced the number of cows kept and more often used non-commercial feed. The exceptions are Ireland, where the drought has led to an increase in the use of this feed, and New Zealand, where milk prices have been high.
Feed production for fattening cattle fell slightly to just 0.34 percent, mainly due to the decline in production in Europe and Australia, where commercial feed production was less produced due to the extremely abundant grass harvest.
Aquaculture feed production grew by 2.7 percent last year. The most important countries in this category were China, Vietnam, India, Norway and Indonesia. Significant growth was recorded in China, Brazil, Ecuador, the Philippines and the USA. In Europe, aquaculture feed production also increased last year.
Pet feeds were the most produced, with a growth of an average of 7.25 percent. This was due to an increase in the number of pets during the pandemic. North America and Europe continued to remain the largest producers of pet feed.
Regional production
North America reported an increase of 0.88 percent (2.272 million tons). After China, the United States remained the second largest feed producer in the world, the broiler, beef and pet food sectors grew in the country.
In Latin America, growth was 1.6 percent (3,006 million tons), while Brazil remained the regional leader in feed production, ranked third in the world. The largest production volumes were in Mexico, Brazil and Chile.
In Europe, most affected by the war in Ukraine, feed production fell by 4.7% (12.882 million tonnes). This was due not only to geopolitical unrest but also to increasingly recurrent infectious diseases: African swine fever and avian influenza.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the volumes of feed production remained unchanged, since the decrease in China, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia was offset by an increase in Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia and South Korea.
In Africa, feed production fell by 3.86 percent last year (1,718 million tonnes), mainly due to a decrease in production in Egypt, Morocco, Kenya and Nigeria. However, in countries such as the Republic of South Africa, feed production has increased by more than 2 percent. Namibia also reported higher feed production volumes.
Analysts are in no hurry to predict what feed production will be in 2023, as it is difficult to predict the course of geopolitical unrest, which has a significant impact on the energy and raw materials chains, as well as the possible challenges posed by climate change, which determine the yield of grain crops and herbal forage.
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