Starter Feed Market

Starter Feed Market Size Share, and Trends 2026:

Starter Feed Market was worth USD 27.55 billion in 2021 and estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 4.6%, to reach USD 32.74 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 are 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 farms, it may obtain much higher results on the growth, nutritional and sanitary performance of animals. It allows the animal to adapt to the solid feed and consequently, improving assimilation of the following feeds. In addition, we also obtain 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 levels 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 the increase of the swine population during the initial growth stage to get accustomed to a 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 Starter Feed Market:

Major factors driving for the Global 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 Global Starter Feed Market.

REPORT COVERAGE:

Starter Feed Market Segmentation:

Starter Feed Market – By Ingredients:

• Corn

• Wheat
• Oats
• Soybean
• Barley
• Others

 Starter Feed Market – By Type:

• Medicated
• Non-medicated
• Form
• Pellets
• Crumbles

 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.

Starter Feed Market – By Regions:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
• Latin America
• Middle-East & Africa

North America has the largest revenue while the Asia-Pacific market is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period due to the rise in livestock production, technology advancements, growing demographics and emerging economies like China and India.

Key Players:

Major companies in the Global 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.