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A global shortage of vitamins A and E is expected in the first half of 2018, with vitamin E spot prices more than tripling after a fire at BASF's citral plant in Ludwigshafen in October 2017. Chinese environmental rules have also forced vitamin makers to cut output, and BASF declared force majeure on its vitamin production.
Tight vitamin A and E supply raises premix costs for feed producers, and the disruption is likely to persist while Chinese environmental curbs continue.
nationalhogfarmer.comMar 22, 2018Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
