WattAgNet: Compound feed production down slightly in Germany

21-09-2016

Pigs represent the country’s top livestock species in terms of compound feed production

Germany recorded a slight drop in national output of compound feed to 23.39 million metric tons (mmt) for the most recent grain marketing year, July 2015 to June 2016. According to the country’s animal nutrition organization, DVT, this figure represents a reduction of 0.7 percent from the previous year’s figure of 23.56 mmt.

While these figures are provisional, DVT highlights the differing fortunes in the country’s regions and between livestock sectors. Northern states where livestock production is concentrated – such as Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia – registered a slight increase in feed output, while those in the south produced lower tonnages. The decline was marked in the East, where production volume was down by 5 percent.

The number of commercial feed mills in Germany at the end of the marketing year was 313, just one fewer than in 2014-15. The figure refers to registered feed mills, which include all those with an annual output of 1,000 metric tons (mt) or more. Seventeen mills in Germany produced more than 300,000 mt feed during the year.

In the introduction to the organization’s latest annual report, DVT president Jan Lahder called for quality control systems to be strengthened and simplified throughout the supply chain. Clarification of the feed sector’s responsibilities in the production of foods free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is required, he said, as well as standardization of fees for the control of goods moving between German states.

 
 

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