EU feed production stable, but with interspecies shifts

Since the industrialisation and intensification of animal production started taking place in the late 1960s compound animal feed production increased with peaks and troughs. But now a saturation point has been reached with hardly any growth and only shifts in volumes between the main species can be observed. Animal feeding stuffs, including feed materials and compound feeds, are the main input into livestock production. Within the EU-27, about 460 million tonnes (mt) of feeding stuffs are cons