The production of compound feed in Russia in 2030 could amount to 40 million tons, which is 8.7% more than in 2025 (36.8 million tons). This forecast was made by the president of the Compound Feed Producers' Union, director of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Compound Feed Industry, Valery Afanasyev, at the international conference "Compound Feed-2026". In 2025, according to Rosstat, production of this product grew by 1.2% to 36.8 million tons, he recalled. "Just three or four years ago, the increase was around 5%," said Afanasyev. According to him, the decrease in growth rates indicates that the industry "has saturated the producers of livestock products with compound feed." "Today there is no shortage of compound feed in the country," the expert emphasized. According to his presentation, the production of compound feed for poultry in 2025 increased to 17.1 million tons from 16.9 million tons in 2024, for pigs to 16.2 million tons from 16.1 million tons, for cattle to ...