The 2020 Alltech Global Feed Survey estimates that international feed tonnage decreased by 1.07 per cent to 1.126 billion tonnes of feed produced last year, due largely to African swine fever (ASF) and the decline of pig feed in the Asia-Pacific region.
The top nine feed-producing countries are the United States, China, Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, Spain, Japan and Germany. These countries produce 58 per cent of the world’s feed production and contain 57 per cent of the world’s feed mills, and they can be viewed as an indicator of overall trends in agriculture.
Mark Lyons, president and chief executive officer of Alltech, shared the survey results via public livestream from Alltech’s global headquarters in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
The global data, collected from 145 countries and nearly 30,000 feed mills, indicates feed production by species as: broilers 28 per cent, pigs 24, layers 14, dairy 12, beef 10, other species six, aquaculture four and pets two. Predominant growth came from the layer, broiler, aqua and pet feed sectors.
Canada produced 21.6 million tonnes, with pigs (8.23 million tonnes), broilers (3.25 million tonnes) and dairy (4.2 million tonnes) leading species feed production.
