Spain: Spain’s Poultry Meat and Egg Production Report
Spanish broiler production increased by 10 percent 2014 compared to the previous year, due to lower feed prices and an expected higher demand on domestic consumption and extra EU exports. It is expected for 2015 and 2016 that Spanish broiler production will remain flat, mainly due to the low economic margins received by broiler producers. Regarding egg production, Spain has restructured the egg sector after the implementation of the last Animal Welfare regulation in 2012. Spain’s egg production registers a structural surplus of eggs that in 2014 reached almost 123 percent. Spain is then a net exporter of eggs and in 2014 exports were up 21 percent with 187,000 tons. Spain started exporting eggs to the United States in July 2015. Approximately 6 percent of Spanish egg exports are going to the United States, representing until now the largest country exporting eggs to the U.S.
