Following nearly 15 years of consistent growth, the Russian feed industry saw a drop in output in several segments during the first seven months of 2025.
Russia manufactured 9.3 million tons of pig feed, 2% down compared with the previous year, Feedlot, a Moscow-based think tank, reported, citing official government calculations. Cattle feed production decreased by 0.1%, while sheep and goat feed output dropped by 11%.
Poultry feed production, however, had a 3% increase compared to the previous year, reaching 10.1 million tons. Fish feed production experienced a significant surge, jumping by 78% to 61,200 tons.
Feed premixes production declined by 2% to 326,000 tons, Feedlot added.
The general economic cooling is partly to blame for the mixed feed industry results, commented Lyubov Savkina, director of the Savkina Expert Group, a Moscow-based feed industry consultancy.
"It has indirectly affected everything," Savkina said, but adding that fluctuations in the feed production are rather common, so it might be too early to draw conclusions that the growth trend in the industry might have come to an end.
Sergey Mikhnyuk, executive director of the Russian National Feed Union, added that such a dynamic was expected last year. "We have reached a plateau in livestock production volumes, which, accordingly, is directly reflected in the production of animal feed," he said.
However, Mikhnyuk argued that there are not enough reasons to say that the industry is cooling, in line with the Russian economy. Global trade turbulence coupled with new European sanctions, which, among other things, prohibited the export of certain feed additives to Russia, will be the key factors shaping the business activity in the Russian feed industry in 2026, Mikhnyuk said.
The Russian feed industry still has chances to resume growth in 2026, Savkina said, adding that this would require a good grain harvest and a "stabilization of macroeconomic parameters."
