Livestock Feed Remains Important For Pulses

VANCOUVER - Jan 6/10 - SNS -- Livestock fed remains an important market for pulses and will grow in significance again with the return of higher subsidies in France, STAT Publishing said in a special report prepared for the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Association last September.

Livestock feed is also the reason domestic pulse consumption in Oceania is larger than other parts of the world on a per capita. The reason is most of the lupins grown in the region are consumed as livestock feed.

It is one of the two regions where dry pulses are still consistently used in large quantities as animal feed. The other is Europe, where a large proportion of the domestic field pea and bean crops are still diverted into livestock feed markets.