South Europe fears livestock culls as Ukraine conflict prompts feed shortage

A worker at the Mangimi Liverini shows flaked corn, a major feed and component of livestock diets, as the conflict in Ukraine is having big repercussions on the agricultural raw materials market, hitting Italy's livestock sector heavily dependent on imports from foreign countries, in Telese Terme, Italy, March 16, 2022. Picture taken March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Carlo Vittorio Ferrari, who runs a farm holding 2,000 pigs with his brother near the town of Cremona in northern Italy, fears his fourth generation family business could be lost due to conflict in Ukraine.

The country is a major global supplier of animal feed, stocks of which are falling fast across import-reliant southern Europe.