According to the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL), 281 companies produced a total of 22.9 million t of compound feed during the 2021/22 harvest (the previous year 23.9 million t were produced).
Due to the reduction in the pig herd, the production volume of pig feed fell by 7.6%, but still remained the most important at 9.1 million t. Cattle feed production remained in second place with 6.5 million tons (-4.3%).
At 2.43 million t, soybean meal again ranked just above rapeseed meal (2.42 million t). The trend observed over the past four years, in which soybean meal was increasingly being replaced by rapeseed meal, has therefore come to a halt. The reasons are the smaller rapeseed crop in Germany in 2021 and the war between Russia and Ukraine, which has reduced the supply of rapeseed on the world market.
Legume production increased by 14% compared to the previous year, with 200,398 t. Production of other legumes such as peas, sweet lupins, peas and broad beans saw the highest growth of around 30%.
In contrast, grain processing declined. Barley and triticale were the most affected, with reductions of 20% (55,323 t) and 17% (145,651 t), respectively.
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