Industry profile

Europes feed statistics updated

Of the 478 million tonnes of total feedstuffs consumed by EU livestock, one half (233 million tonnes are roughages
grown on farm. Of the other half , 51 million tonnes are cereals grown and used on farm. The rest is purchased
feedingstuffs, including 156 million tonnes of compound feed which makes up 80 percent of this sector and is
valued at 52 billion.

his month FEFAC, the European Feed Manufacturers

Federation, released its latest Statistical Yearbook
2014 Feed & Food.
Compiled by Arnaud Bouxin, the Federation put
the total output of compound feed for Europe at 220 million
tonnes of which almost three-quarters - 155.8 million tonnes
is produced within the EU-28 and little over one quarter - 61.2
million tonnes - by non-EU countries in Europe; the major feed
producers being Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland
and Serbia.
FEFAC, puts the value of livestock production in the EU-28 at
171.5 billion accounting for 41 percent of the total agricultural
output of 418.5 billion in 2014. It shows the compound feed
industry in EU-28 has fallen back from its high of almost 55
billion in 2013 to 52 billion in 2014.
It uses Eurostat statistics to show that the value of animal
feed in animal production ranges from a low of 35.8 percent
in the UK to 93 percent in Luxembourg with the average at
approximately 54 percent.
The number of production units producing the EUs compound
feed saw a slight decrease in 2014 to 3831, down from 3876 in
2013. Over a 10-year period numbers have steadily fallen from
4489, with Italy declining most rapidly in unit numbers from
700 to 490. Those gaining feed production units over the same
period include Austria from 77 to 88, Latvia from 19 to 38 and
Belgium from 77-87. All other EU countries show a steady
concentration of unit numbers.

Feed output

VALUE OF FEEDINGSTUFFS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTION IN 2014

SK
FI
MT
IE
AT
NL
IT
CY
DK
SE
PL
HU
EU-28
LT
EE
FR
BU
LV
DE
ES
CZ
HR
RO
BE
PT
SI
EL
LU

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

(in %)

100

The UK at 35.8 percent is missing from

15 the top of the table

TURNOVER OF THE EU COMPOUND FEED INDUSTRY

COMPOUND FEED PRODUCTION IN EU-28 PRODUCTION

(Index of volume: 1995=100)

140

Mio.
59.000

135
130

54.000

125

49.000

120
44.000

115

39.000

110
105

34.000

100
29.000

95
90

24.000

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
GDP at market prices

Industrial production

Food industry

Compound feed industry

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

(EU-15 from 1994, EU-25 from 2004 - EU-27 from 2007 - Without Greece, Luxembourg and Malta)

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While the index (1995=100) for compound feed output compares

favourably against volatile industrial output and GDP over the
past decade, compound feed industry turnover has also seen
dramatic changes in total turnover over the same period

The big losers in production include Latvia at -17.8 percent,

Ireland at -11.2 percent and Romania at -10.4 percent. The
biggest gains were made Poland, Austria, Czech Republic,
Cyprus and Spain at 8.7, 5.1, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.3 percent
respectively.

NUMBER AND AVERAGE SIZE OF

FEED PRODUCTION UNITS IN THE EU

5.000

50

4.500
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Source: FEFAC - Alltech

Turkey
18.0

EU-28
(incl. EL)
158.8

Europe non-EU
61.2

Serbia
0.9
Ukraine
4.7

Russia
21.7

Other non-EU
10.6

Switzerland
1.6
Norway
3.7

The EU accounts for roughly two-thirds of Europes total compound

feed output at 155.8 million tonnes
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4.000
3.500

40

3.000
35

2.500
2.000

30

Number of units

EU production per unit, in 1 000 t

Compound feed production in Europe

in 2014 (in mio. t)

1.500
1.000

25

500
20

99

00

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

(EU-15 until 2003, EU-25 from 2004, EU-27 from 2007, EU-28 from 2013)

The blue line shows the fall in production unit numbers from 2004
while the red line shows the continued increase in per unit output.
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The big swing between 2003 and 2044
is when the EU grew from 15
states to 25 member states