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Compound feed production in Germany for 2021/22: Less pig and cattle feed as well as grain, more legumes

Germany
Published Oct 13, 2022

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10/12/2022 | 11:57:00 | ID: 34300 | Department: Agriculture | agricultural economics Bonn (agrar-PR) - According to the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL), 281 notifiable companies produced a total of 22.9 million tonnes of compound feed in the 2021/22 marketing year - in the previous year there were six more companies (23.9 million tonnes). The production volume of pig feed also fell by 7.6 percent, but with 9.1 million tons it remains the most important type of feed. With a production volume of 6.5 million tons, cattle feed remains in second place, but fell by 4.3 percent. The reason for this development is the sufficient forage harvest in 2021.Soybean meal again slightly ahead of rapeseed mealFor the total production volume, around 20.1 million tons of notifiable raw materials were processed. The average production quantity per company is 81,324 tons - 2.3 percent less than in the same period last year. At 2.435 million tons, soybean meal is again slightly above ...
Source: Agrar
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