Pet Food Production and Ingredient Analysis (2025)
The pet food manufacturing industry is an increasingly important partner in the agricultural industry. The production of animal and plant-based protein and energy sources for use in pet food is tremendously diverse, providing nearly countless opportunities for creating recipes to address the nutritional needs of the nation’s pets. With hundreds of agricultural ingredients on the market, animal nutritionists have many choices when formulating nutritious diets for animals at their various life stages. They use everything from major agricultural commodities and coproducts, like soybean oil, dried distillers’ grains or bakery meal, to supplements, vitamins, minerals
and amino acids.
In addition to identifying ingredient and market trends, this research, which focuses solely on dog and cat food and treat sales, has sought to quantify the influence, from a volume and value standpoint, of the pet food manufacturing industry on the broader agriculture community. Read our full case study or review statistics on a state-by-state basis below.