# Feed additives market: Highs for both threonine & folic acid - Food & Agribusiness

> Threonine contracts are trading at record prices, with 2022 Q1 forward deals at the highest level in six years. Folic acid prices rose an average 15.9% globally over the past month, and BASF announced a broad vitamin and carotenoid price increase that pushed buyers into spot purchases.

- Date: 2021-10-29 · published 2021-10-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Global · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/44895-feed-additives-market-highs-for-both-threonine-and-folic-acid-food-and
- Commodities: [Lysine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LYSINE.md), [Methionine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/METH.md)

## Why it matters

Higher threonine and vitamin costs push up premix and compound feed costs for livestock producers, with supply tightness unlikely to ease soon.

## Read by commodity

- METH: bullish ▲
- LYSINE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- foodagribusiness.world: https://www.foodagribusiness.world/feed/feed-additives-market-highs-for-both-threonine-and-folic-acid

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