date:Mar 11, 2014
m the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The cattle/calf feed price excludes calf milk substitutes and the poultry feed price is an average weighted by production from feed compounders, excluding output from integrators.
The graph below shows the average price of a tonne of compound feed for cattle, pigs and poultry in the UK from the first quarter of 2006 to fourth quarter of 2013.
Peak prices for all species were reached in the first half of 2013; poultry feed p