Europe Starter Feed Market

Europe Starter Feed Market Size, Growth, Trends and Forecast:

Europe Starter Feed Market was worth USD 8.38 billion in 2021 and estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 4.34%, to reach USD 10.89 billion by 2026. Starter feed is the mixture of dairy and highly digestible protein products, acidifiers, enzymes, probiotics and palatability agents like sweeteners and flavours with the raw materials that is generally available in the farm to obtain high performing pre-starter and starter diets. With the usage of quality starter feeds in the first weeks of animal farm, it may obtain much higher results on growth, nutritional and sanitary performance of animals. It allows the animal to adopt to the solid feed and consequently, improving assimilation of the following feeds. In addition, we also obtain a progressive growth and lower mortality.

Starter feeds are used in the different types of livestock farming such as poultry, swine, aquatic, ruminants. In poultry, it is used in newly hatched chicks ages 0-10 weeks in order to increase protein level up to 20%. It covers all the nutritional needs of the farm fish by improving the performance of the fish and contributes to increased production profitability. The starter feed for swine provides a balanced nutritional formulation and also helps in increase of swine population during initial growth stage to get accustomed to solid diet. In the livestock feed, oats are easier to feed to animals than other than grains because of their high fibre content and beta-glucans.

Drivers and Restraints of Europe Starter Feed Market:

Major factors driving for the Europe Starter Feed Market are the increasing demand for the livestock products, adoption of precision nutrition techniques, growing people awareness about animal feed, rise in disposable income, favourable government policies in the animal industry, rise in livestock production, new products innovation and technological advancements in the farms.  However, lack of awareness and high cost feed are restraining the growth of the Europe Starter Feed Market.

Europe Starter Feed Market Segmentation:

Europe Starter Feed Market - By Ingredients:

• Corn

• Wheat
• Oats
• Soybean
• Barley
• Others

Europe Starter Feed Market​​​​​​​ - By Type:

• Medicated
• Non-medicated

Europe Starter Feed Market​​​​​​​ - By Form:

• Pellets
• Crumbles

Europe Starter Feed Market​​​​​​​ - By Application:

• Poultry
• Ruminants
• Swine
• Aquatic
• Equine
• Others

Medicated starter feed is anticipated to have the highest CAGR which is used to give livestock veterinary medicines. In ingredient type, Oats are projected to grow at the fastest rate through 2025. In application, Poultry is forecasted to have the highest revenue of the starter feed market during the forecast period. The Europe market has been

Geographically segmented into

• Germany
• U.K
• France
• Spain
• Italy

In Europe, Germany leads the market, followed by France and U.K. The market in this region is projected to grow strongly during the forecast period due to various factors such as growing awareness and favourable reimbursement policies.

Key Players:

Major companies in the Europe Starter Feed Market are Cargill Incorporated, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Evonik Industries AG, BASF SE, Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc, Roquette Freres S.A., Koninklijke DSM NV, Alltech and Associated British Foods Plc.