DUTCH ANIMAL FEED USAGE DOWN IN FIRST HALF SEASON
  Dutch animal feed usage in the first
  half of the current season from July through December 1986 fell
  7.6 pct to 6.5 mln tonnes from 7.1 mln in the same period of
  1985, figures in the latest newsletter from the co-operative
  Cebeco-Handelsraad show.
      Tapioca usage fell 9.1 pct to 1.4 mln tonnes from 1.6 mln
  in the first half of the 1985/86 season.
      Grain usage fell 6.1 pct to 1.1 mln tonnes from 1.2 mln,
  while soymeal usage fell 10 pct to 967,000 tonnes from 1.1 mln.
      Cornglutenfeed usage fell 17.8 pct to 729,000 tonnes from
  887,000, but cornfeedmeal usage nearly doubled to 399,000
  tonnes from 201,000.
      Citruspulp usage dropped 62.8 pct to 149,000 tonnes from
  400,000 tonnes, while rapeseed and meal usage rose 9.6 pct to
  217,000 tonnes from 198,000 and sunmeal rose 25.6 pct to
  216,000 tonnes from 172,000 tonnes.
      During the whole of the season from July 1985 to June 1986,
  Dutch soymeal usage fell 12 pct to 1.9 mln tonnes from 2.1 mln
  the previous season, while sunmeal usage rose 25 pct to 408,000
  tonnes from 325,000.
      Rapeseed and meal usage during the season also rose 14 pct
  to 409,000 tonnes from 360,000, but citruspulp fell 37 pct to
  516,000 tonnes from 826,000.
      Meanwhile, the value of exports of agricultural products
  from the Netherlands in calendar 1986 fell 5.4 pct to 48.7
  billion guilders from 51.5 billion in calendar 1985, figures
  from the Ministry of Agriculture show.
      During the same period imports of agricultural products
  dropped 13.1 pct to 31.2 billion guilders from 35.8 billion.
  

