UK feed exports to EU hit as not all countries applying the same controls The AIC, the feed industry representatives in the UK, say challenges persist in terms of exporting feeds to the EU.
While the trade body signaled in January and February that there were extremely complex issues surrounding the export of feeds containing animal by-products, it is now flagging, among other challenges, problems for its members in relation to feeds that contain no animal products.
The AIC outlined the issues as they stand:
Non-harmonized implementation of EU feed legislation and official controls regulations (sanitary and phytosanitary requirements) at EU entry points (including border control posts) and by national control authorities.
Optimum nutrient digestion and absorption depends on high quality feed ingredients.
Feed particle size is very important for gizzard development. A well-developed gizzard is essential to enhance grinding activity, leading to not only increased gut motility and greater digestion of nutrients, but also to greater reduction in particle size entering the small intestine, ultimately increasing the accessibility of the feed to digestive enzymes. Poor pellet quality and excess fine particles can reduce gizzard function which can increase the incidence of feed passage (undigested feed in the animal’s waste) and dysbacteriosis or microbial imbalance.
High levels of antinutritional factors in the feed could lead to poor digestibility, resulting in more undigested protein in the intestinal lumen. The presence of undigested protein in the lumen favors the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria, such as
Lockdowns, freight and currency challenges fueling high feed additive prices Kemiex sees rising ingredient prices for a set of reasons: freight related disruptions and charges, a new wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, elevated raw material prices for fermented feed additives and dollar weakness.
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We’re approaching the Chinese New Year holidays, which means reduced corporate activity on top of the production restrictions already in place the weeks before.
“While purchasing departments are well aware of this and would have taken it into account, with thorough production and supply planning in advance, this year’s crazy freight market means supply chain experts remain concerned about timely deliveries, and the record costs associated with sea, but also air, freight.