Germany reported a drop in feed production in the 2021/22 season
Meat
Germany
Published Oct 22, 2022
Tridge summary
According to the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BLE), 281 enterprises produced a total of 22.9 million tons of feed in the 2021/22 season (23.9 million tons were produced a year earlier). Due to the reduction in the number of pigs, the volume of feed production decreased by 7.6%, but still remained the highest - at the level of 9.1 million tons. In second place was the production of feed for cattle with a volume of 6.5 million tons (- 4.3%).
Original content
The production of soybean meal again slightly exceeded the output of rapeseed meal (2.42 million tons), amounting to 2.43 million tons. The tendency observed over the past four years to increasingly replace soybean meal with rapeseed has stopped. The reasons are a smaller rapeseed crop in Germany in 2021 and the crisis in Ukraine, which reduced the supply of rapeseed on the world market. Legume production increased by 14% compared to the previous year and amounted to 200,398 tons. The production of crops such as peas, sweet lupins and beans showed the highest ...
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