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If you listen to the media for the last few months, you don’t have to be a genius or an economist to understand why feed costs have climbed to multi-year heights. Global supplies of key crop staples will remain tight for at least two years after weather events in producing countries and shipping disruptions triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Demand will likely outpace supplies until at least 2024, resulting in high crop and wheat prices that will draw grain stocks out of storage and encourage farmers to plant more, according to recent reports. Note also that phosphates already tripled in price. There is a positive note that soybean meal will remain at “reasonable” levels.

It will be a tough year, especially because nobody believes the prices for eggs and meat will increase fast enough to absorb feed cost increases. Grain companies will have to navigate great volatility in their trading activities. Abrupt changes can occur anytime, with a severe impact on the farming industry.

This white paper points out 6 tips to mitigate the production cost increase and dig into these points to help the feed industry to cope with such an unprecedented situation.