France. More corn has been added to compound feeds

Feed mills processed 1.18 thousand tons of wheat, down 6.2% from a year earlier, barley inclusion fell 11.7% to 286 thousand tons French animal feeds contained more corn this year than in 2023. In the third quarter, 660 thousand tons of corn was used, 16.5% more than last year. Soybean cake was used 22.3% more at 743,000 tons, Agreste agricultural statistics show. Feed mills processed 1.18 thousand tons of wheat, down 6.2% from a year earlier, barley inclusion fell 11.7% to 286 thousand tons, and use of rapeseed cake fell 4.7% to 596 thousand tons. These figures reflect the extremely low wheat and barley yields in the country. For the main crop, soft wheat, Agreste recorded the lowest production level in more than 40 years. Total animal feed production in France remained more or less stable in the third quarter with a slight increase of 1% to 4.557 million tons in 2024. Of this total production, However, the data also show that ...