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Canada Feed Additives - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2026 - 2031)
Market Report I 2026-02-09 I 80 Pages I Mordor Intelligence
Canada Feed Additives Market Analysis
The Canada feed additives market was valued at USD 1.01 billion in 2025 and estimated to grow from USD 1.04 billion in 2026 to reach USD 1.23 billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 3.32% during the forecast period (2026-2031). Steady growth is underpinned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Feeds Regulations 2024, which streamlines approvals for innovative inputs while keeping strict safety guardrails. Heightened demand for amino-acid balancing, wider use of acidifiers as antibiotic alternatives, and an expanding aquaculture base in Atlantic Canada collectively lift volume demand. Federal clean-technology grants further encourage methane-cutting solutions, prompting dairy and beef operators to test products like 3-nitrooxypropanol. At the same time, supply-chain vulnerability for imported amino acids and vitamins encourages domestic valorization of brewery grains, recycled maple syrup, and insect proteins. Competitive differentiation increasingly hinges on digital precision-feeding platforms able to match additive inclusion with real-time animal performance.
Canada Feed Additives Market Trends and Insights
Rising Demand for Functional Proteins in Animal Diets
Canadian livestock producers aim to tighten feed conversion efficiency as input costs climb and labor remains scarce. Tailored amino-acid profiles limit nitrogen excretion and comply with tougher emission caps, notably in Manitoba, where precision lysine and methionine dosing is gaining traction. Carbon-pricing signals amplify the incentive because every incremental gain in protein utilization reduces methane and nitrous oxide intensity. Import dependence, however, exposes cost exposures that further reinforce the case for fine-tuned formulations. Together, these forces lift demand for high-purity amino-acid blends, peptide concentrates, and functional soy proteins across swine, poultry, and aquaculture channels.
Ban on Antibiotic Growth Promoters Boosting Alternative Additives
Quebec's restrictions on Category 1 antimicrobials triggered industry-wide shifts toward acidifiers, phytogenics, and prebiotics. The regulation helped cut multidrug-resistant E. coli prevalence. Producers now pair organic acids with essential-oil blends to sustain growth rates without antibiotics, while veterinarians emphasize vaccination and dry-cow therapy. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA's) updated feed framework accelerates market entry for such alternatives, driving product-development pipelines to center on antimicrobial-free efficacy.
Price Volatility of Key Amino Acid Imports
Lysine and methionine prices swung during 2024 as energy markets tightened and Asian producers trimmed output. Canadian buyers face added currency risk and cross-border tariff uncertainty, as highlighted by the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada. Small and medium-sized feed manufacturers lack the purchasing power and storage capacity to hedge against price volatility, forcing them to either absorb costs or pass them to livestock producers already facing margin pressure. The situation is exacerbated by limited domestic amino acid production capacity, with most Canadian facilities focused on downstream feed manufacturing rather than raw material production.
Other drivers and restraints analyzed in the detailed report include:
Expansion of Aquaculture in Atlantic CanadaAdoption of Precision-Feeding Digital Platforms by Large IntegratorsSupply-Chain Disruptions in Vitamin Premixes
For complete list of drivers and restraints, kindly check the Table Of Contents.
Segment Analysis
Amino acids captured 17.35% of the Canada feed additives market share in 2025. Lysine and methionine dominate within the category, driven by swine and poultry growers in Ontario and Quebec that benchmark feed-conversion ratios against United States peers. Cost pass-through pressures in 2025 sustain careful dose optimization, and precision formulating tools reinforce demand for crystalline amino-acid concentrates. Enzyme pairs such as phytase-carbohydrase combos score traction across Prairie wheat-based rations that otherwise exhibit lower phosphorus availability.
Acidifiers expand at a forecast 4.81% CAGR through 2031 as the preferred antibiotic-free growth promoter. Organic acid blends featuring fumaric, lactic, and formic acids simultaneously lower gut pH and suppress pathogenic loads, positioning them as versatile across swine starter feeds and broiler finisher diets. Within specialty lanes, phytogenics infused with thymol or carvacrol compete on organoleptic benefits, yet remain a niche until pricing aligns. Yeast-based additives produced from brewery-spent grain advance circular-economy goals and provide low-cost protein fractions that displace a share of imported soybean meal.
The Canada Feed Additives Market Report is Segmented by Additive (Acidifiers, Amino Acids, Antibiotics, Antioxidants, Binders, Enzymes, Flavors and Sweeteners, Minerals, Mycotoxin Detoxifiers, Phytogenics, Pigments, Prebiotics, Probiotics, and More), Animal (Aquaculture, Poultry, Ruminants, Swine, and More). The Market Forecasts are Provided in Terms of Value (USD) and Volume (Metric Tons).
List of Companies Covered in this Report:
Alltech, Inc. Archer Daniels Midland Co. BASF SE Cargill Inc. DSM-Firmenich Evonik Industries AG Elanco Animal Health Inc. Nutreco NV (SHV) Solvay S.A. Adisseo Jefo Nutrition Group IFF(Danisco Animal Nutrition) Phibro Animal Health Novus International (Mitsui & Co.) Kemin Industries
Additional Benefits:
The market estimate (ME) sheet in Excel format
3 months of analyst support
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & KEY FINDINGS
2 REPORT OFFERS
3 INTRODUCTION
3.1 Study Assumptions & Market Definition
3.2 Scope of the Study
3.3 Research Methodology
4 KEY INDUSTRY TRENDS
4.1 Animal Headcount
4.1.1 Poultry
4.1.2 Ruminants
4.1.3 Swine
4.2 Feed Production
4.2.1 Aquaculture
4.2.2 Poultry
4.2.3 Ruminants
4.2.4 Swine
4.3 Regulatory Framework
4.3.1 Canada
4.4 Value Chain & Distribution Channel Analysis
4.5 Market Drivers
4.5.1 Rising demand for functional proteins in animal diets
4.5.2 Ban on antibiotic growth promoters boosting alternative additives
4.5.3 Expansion of aquaculture in Atlantic Canada
4.5.4 Adoption of precision-feeding digital platforms by large integrators
4.5.5 Valorization of brewery grains into yeast-rich additives
4.5.6 Federal clean-tech funding for methane-cutting feed innovations
4.6 Market Restraints
4.6.1 Price volatility of key amino acid imports
4.6.2 Supply-chain disruptions in vitamin premixes
4.6.3 Low adoption among small ruminant farmers
4.6.4 Tightening organic-label rules limiting synthetic antioxidants
5 MARKET SIZE AND GROWTH FORECASTS (VALUE AND VOLUME)
5.1 Additive
5.1.1 Acidifiers
5.1.1.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.1.1.1 Fumaric Acid
5.1.1.1.2 Lactic Acid
5.1.1.1.3 Propionic Acid
5.1.1.1.4 Other Acidifiers
5.1.2 Amino Acids
5.1.2.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.2.1.1 Lysine
5.1.2.1.2 Methionine
5.1.2.1.3 Threonine
5.1.2.1.4 Tryptophan
5.1.2.1.5 Other Amino Acids
5.1.3 Antibiotics
5.1.3.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.3.1.1 Bacitracin
5.1.3.1.2 Penicillins
5.1.3.1.3 Tetracyclines
5.1.3.1.4 Tylosin
5.1.3.1.5 Other Antibiotics
5.1.4 Antioxidants
5.1.4.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.4.1.1 Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA)
5.1.4.1.2 Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)
5.1.4.1.3 Citric Acid
5.1.4.1.4 Ethoxyquin
5.1.4.1.5 Propyl Gallate
5.1.4.1.6 Tocopherols
5.1.4.1.7 Other Antioxidants
5.1.5 Binders
5.1.5.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.5.1.1 Natural Binders
5.1.5.1.2 Synthetic Binders
5.1.6 Enzymes
5.1.6.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.6.1.1 Carbohydrases
5.1.6.1.2 Phytases
5.1.6.1.3 Other Enzymes
5.1.7 Flavors and Sweeteners
5.1.7.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.7.1.1 Flavors
5.1.7.1.2 Sweeteners
5.1.8 Minerals
5.1.8.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.8.1.1 Macrominerals
5.1.8.1.2 Microminerals
5.1.9 Mycotoxin Detoxifiers
5.1.9.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.9.1.1 Binders
5.1.9.1.2 Biotransformers
5.1.10 Phytogenics
5.1.10.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.10.1.1 Essential Oil
5.1.10.1.2 Herbs and Spices
5.1.10.1.3 Other Phytogenics
5.1.11 Pigments
5.1.11.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.11.1.1 Carotenoids
5.1.11.1.2 Curcumin and Spirulina
5.1.12 Prebiotics
5.1.12.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.12.1.1 Fructo Oligosaccharides
5.1.12.1.2 Galacto Oligosaccharides
5.1.12.1.3 Inulin
5.1.12.1.4 Lactulose
5.1.12.1.5 Mannan Oligosaccharides
5.1.12.1.6 Xylo Oligosaccharides
5.1.12.1.7 Other Prebiotics
5.1.13 Probiotics
5.1.13.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.13.1.1 Bifidobacteria
5.1.13.1.2 Enterococcus
5.1.13.1.3 Lactobacilli
5.1.13.1.4 Pediococcus
5.1.13.1.5 Streptococcus
5.1.13.1.6 Other Probiotics
5.1.14 Vitamins
5.1.14.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.14.1.1 Vitamin A
5.1.14.1.2 Vitamin B
5.1.14.1.3 Vitamin C
5.1.14.1.4 Vitamin E
5.1.14.1.5 Other Vitamins
5.1.15 Yeast
5.1.15.1 By Sub Additive
5.1.15.1.1 Live Yeast
5.1.15.1.2 Selenium Yeast
5.1.15.1.3 Spent Yeast
5.1.15.1.4 Torula Dried Yeast
5.1.15.1.5 Whey Yeast
5.1.15.1.6 Yeast Derivatives
5.2 Animal
5.2.1 Aquaculture
5.2.1.1 By Sub Animal
5.2.1.1.1 Fish
5.2.1.1.2 Shrimp
5.2.1.1.3 Other Aquaculture Species
5.2.2 Poultry
5.2.2.1 By Sub Animal
5.2.2.1.1 Broiler
5.2.2.1.2 Layer
5.2.2.1.3 Other Poultry Birds
5.2.3 Ruminants
5.2.3.1 By Sub Animal
5.2.3.1.1 Beef Cattle
5.2.3.1.2 Dairy Cattle
5.2.3.1.3 Other Ruminants
5.2.4 Swine
5.2.5 Other Animals
6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
6.1 Key Strategic Moves
6.2 Market Share Analysis
6.3 Company Landscape
6.4 Company Profiles (Includes Global Level Overview, Market Level Overview, Core Business Segments, Financials, Headcount, Key Information, Market Rank, Market Share, Products and Services, and Analysis of Recent Developments).
6.4.1 Alltech, Inc.
6.4.2 Archer Daniels Midland Co.
6.4.3 BASF SE
6.4.4 Cargill Inc.
6.4.5 DSM-Firmenich
6.4.6 Evonik Industries AG
6.4.7 Elanco Animal Health Inc.
6.4.8 Nutreco NV (SHV)
6.4.9 Solvay S.A.
6.4.10 Adisseo
6.4.11 Jefo Nutrition Group
6.4.12 IFF(Danisco Animal Nutrition)
6.4.13 Phibro Animal Health
6.4.14 Novus International (Mitsui & Co.)
6.4.15 Kemin Industries
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