UK: Animal feed import value UK 2022

For the first time on record, imports of animal feed to the United Kingdom surpassed three billion British pounds in 2020 and kept increasing each year after that. Imports include hay, fodder, bran, sharps, and other residues derived from cereals or leguminous plants, oilcake and other solid residues, other residues, brewing dregs, and all types of pet or animal food.

Animal feed market

Export values amounted to about 1.2 billion British pounds in 2022. Compared to 2020, exports had declined by over 200 million pounds. Beyond trade, the UK sales from the manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals was at about 5.1 billion pounds in 2021.

UK livestock numbers

The animal feed produced and imported is used to feed about a quarter million horses in the UK. While cattle and calves in the UK are almost at their lowest number since 2005, there are still over 9.4 million animals on agricultural holdings in the UK.

Import value of animal feed in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2003 to 2022 (in million GBP)

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2003 to 2022

Supplementary notes

* Provisional
Data in real terms at 2022 prices.
Figures are comprised of Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) divisions 08 - Animal feed. This includes hay, fodder, bran, sharps and other residues derived from cereals or leguminous plants, oil-cake and other solid residues, other residues, brewing dregs, all types of pet or animal food.
Data have been compiled from multiple versions of this report.

This statistic using original data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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