Welcome to the World of Feed!
Global feed statistics are difficult to gather. Most developed countries
have a national feed assocaition. Many countries do not.
However, compound feed production is dominated by the world's Big 4 - they are the USA, European Union, China and Brazil. These four countries account for more that 70 percent of all feed produced. They play a major role in standard setting and in the development of technologies used in our industry.
To give an overview of where feed fits into the global picture, IFIF, in conjunction with PotashCorp of Canada, have put together a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate how world population and GDP growth is driving meat consumption. The presentation details why more meat will result in more demand for more grain. Today's global customer has greater buying power, however, changes being brought about as a result of the boom in ethanol and biodiesel production will impact our ability to produce food products from livestock production.
The following slides will help to put the challenges we face as an industry in perspective with regard to crop supply and demand.
Please send us your comments on these issues here
Note:We have received valuable asistance from Feed Internatinal
magazine in collating these figures. Please find in the attached PDF
Feed International's Panorama on world feed statistics published in
January 2006.
Brief feed facts:
Total world feed output is approximately 614
million tonnes
Four
countries produce 430 million tonnes (or 70% of the world's industrial
feed output)
10 countries produce 85%
50 countries produce 90%
Some 3800 feedmills produce over 80% of
all compound feed produced
10 largest companies globally produce
65 million tonnes
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Table 1:
| Feed Production by Region | Output (million tonnes) |
| North America | 160 |
| Asia | 132 |
| European Union (25) | 140 |
| Latin America | 66 |
| Non-EU Europe | 59 |
| Middle East/Africa | 29 |
| Others | 28 |
614 |
| The Big 4 | Output (million tonnes) |
| USA | 145 |
| EU | 142 |
| China | 96 |
| Brazil | 48 |
431 |
Table 3:
| Country | Feed production (million tonnes) |
Population (millions) |
| China | 96
|
1300 |
| India | 13
|
1100 |
| USA | 145
|
275 |
| Brazil | 48 |
172 |
| Japan | 22 |
126 |
| Mexico | 22 |
100 |
| France | 20 |
59 |
| Canada | 20 |
31 |
| Germany | 19 |
82 |
| Spain | 19 |
40 |
| Netherlands | 13 |
16 |
Table 4:
| Year | Population (billions) |
Manufactured
feed ( million tons ) |
Per capita feed use (kg/head) |
| 1980 | 4.5 |
370 |
82 |
| 1985 | 4.9 |
440 |
90 |
| 1990 | 5.3
|
537 |
101 |
| 1995 | 5.6
|
590 |
105 |
| 1999 | 6.0
|
586 |
98 |
| 2000 | 6.1
|
591 |
97 |
| 2001 | 6.2 |
597 |
96 |
| 2002 | 6.3 |
604 |
96 |
| 2003 | 6.3 |
612 |
97 |
| 2004 | 6.4 |
614 |
96 |
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