Corn pod diet will begin to decline

Since the birth of China's modern feed industry, corn-soybean meal diets have become the standard for Chinese feed. The use of corn and soybean meal has continued to increase, resulting in huge imports of soybeans. Now that domestic corn supply has begun to tighten, prices have risen. As a result, the profits of feed companies have been reduced, and the feed industry is bound to look for alternative raw materials, which will surely lead to the decline of corn-soybean meal diets.

The General Administration of Customs released the data on January 10. From January to December 2010, China imported 54.8 million tons of soybeans, a substantial increase of 12.25 million tons compared to 42.55 million tons in 2009; Million tons Since 2002, China's corn prices have risen 1.89 times, soymeal prices have increased by 1.62 times, and fish meal prices have increased by 2.08 times. So now fishmeal has been removed from ordinary pig and poultry feeds, used only in sucker feed and high-grade aquatic products; because the price is too high and it is heavily dependent on imports.

Although both corn and soybean meal are bulk feed ingredients, there are few raw materials that can be completely replaced, but some substitutes are always present, such as wheat, wheat bran, rice bran, chowder, DDGS, and various types of dregs.

Finally, the emergence of cooperatives in the Chinese aquaculture industry will facilitate the use of a variety of existing non-conventional feed ingredients in accordance with local conditions; and the industrialization of China's kitchen waste treatment will also produce a huge amount of feed ingredients, which will replace corn pods.