Growth returns to French feed market amid disease challenges

20 million tonnes is predicted. However, that recovery is weakened by the wave of livestock diseases that have hit France over the last few years, SNIA fears. “Realising that further growth depends on the further development of the sanitary situation but also on the way local producers can resist imports and on the capacity to renew livestock buildings.” France has had some large epidemics of avian influenza from 2022, leading to the culling of millions of ducks and chicken. Recently, the country reported some new outbreaks be it still a limited number compared to neighbouring Germany. As for cattle and sheep, the department of agricultural registered over 6,500 cases of Bluetongue 3 since June 1st, 2025. At the end of 2024, the first cases of the cattle disease EHD were discovered. In July this year, Lumpy Skin Disease LSD also entered the country for the first time, with the number of cases rising to 101 at the middle of November. So far, those developments haven´t influenced ...