Will the beginning of 2021 calm the mood in henhouses and white meat slaughterhouses? The topic of feed came to the fore last year.
But not on feed conversion, but on price. Rapid growth in feed prices, and particularly soybeans, which is around 30% of all feed, is another major problem for the industry. The cost of feed relates for more than 75% of the production costs. The combination of various events in the world markets caused such a scenario of events.
But not on feed conversion, but on price. Rapid growth in feed prices, and particularly soybeans, which is around 30% of all feed, is another major problem for the industry. The cost of feed relates for more than 75% of the production costs. The combination of various events in the world markets caused such a scenario of events.
The situation is so nervous that the increases in feed, energy and fuel coincide with significant problems at the interface between plants and retail chains. Food retailers impose prices that in no way take into account the current rising costs of production. The market surpluses created by avian influenza and the coronavirus pandemic are used by commercial networks to dictate tough conditions
that are acceptable to meat plants and farmers.
that are acceptable to meat plants and farmers.
Broiler production is reared for 5-6 weeks. Some say that in agriculture, the fastest money turnover. In order not to generate losses with high feed prices and low meat prices, production is stopped. This is also what those breeders who were not bound by contract did. The currently rising prices of poultry livestock are the result of the low supply on the broiler market. When will supply increase? Everyone interested in poultry farming says that at the beginning of March.