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Rising corn and soybean meal prices, combined with a 20% drop in egg output from disease pressure, are pushing layer and swine farmers toward new farmgate price increases.
The Office of Agricultural Economics has set THB 72/kg as the industry-wide cost benchmark for Q2 2026, while farmgate prices in western Thailand remain close to that level at THB 68-70/kg.
Shrimp and pangasius led growth in the first seven months of 2026, but logistics costs, US tariff uncertainty, and competitive pressure in shrimp markets cloud the second-half outlook.
Whiteleg shrimp at 100 pieces/kg has fallen to around VND 80,000/kg at the farmgate, with production costs at the same level leaving farmers with little or no margin.
MFM's Vimaflour holds ~50% of northern Vietnam's flour market, with a 25% capacity expansion set to begin in Q4 2026 and complete by early FY2028.
Even in less turbulent times, animal feed prices are a significant production expense � representing about 70% of livestock production costs. As 2023 gets underway, achieving production margins has become even more complex amid a "perfect storm" of conditions that are threatening producers' profitability.
Considering the high price of fish meal and the shortage of natural resources, it has become a general trend to use other protein ingredients to reduce the use of fish meal in aquafeed.
Multifold incidents such as supply chain interruption, climate changes, the Ukraine war, and fluctuating COVID outbreaks in different regions, are all contributed to the current volatility in feed ingredients prices. Unfortunately, the recent forecast indicates that the high feed ingredient price won't be stabilized in the near future.
Many stressors are associated with intensive rearing practices in poultry production systems, one of which is mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are natural toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi that can be found in feedstuffs such as cereal grains and their by-products.
Recent disruption in the global supply chain and pressure from international carbon neutral policies have significantly reduced the supply of inorganic phosphorus (P) to the Asia-Pacific region.
