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Data

July-September 2007. It was the smallest since April-June 2005 when it was
16,046,000. The largest quarterly durum grind reported by the Census Bureau occurred in January-March 2001
at 19,416,000 bus, followed by JanuaryMarch 1994 at 19,397,000, October-December 1993 at 19,200,000 and OctoberDecember 2007 at 19,079,000. Durum
grind in the third quarter was down
2.7% from 16,771,000 bus in the second
quarter.
The durum semolina extraction rate
in July-September averaged 76.3%,

against 75.9% in April-June and 74.1%
in July-September 2007.
Straight semolina and durum flour
production in the first nine months
of 2008 totaled 22,977,000 cwts, down
6.6% from 24,602,000 in the first
nine months of the prior year. It was
the smallest nine-month total since
19,953,000 in 2004. The 2007 ninemonth total was the second largest
on record. The January-September
2007 total at 24,602,000 cwts compares
with record nine months of 1994 at
24,692,000, 2001 at 24,427,000, 1996 at

Most countries show annual increases
in flour production; food use varies
LONDON - In its annual data on
flour production around the world,
covering 2006 output in major
countries, the International Grains
Council showed a preponderance
of small gains. Of 20 leading producing countries for which 2006
wheat flour output is presented in
the I.G.C.'s World Grain Statistics for
2007, 12 countries posted production
gains, six showed decreases from
2005, and two were unchanged.
The 20 major producing countries
(those with output of at least 2 million tonnes, or 44 million cwts, of
wheat flour in the year) reported in
its latest compilation actually cover
all but nine of the nations with flour
output at this level.
At the same time, the data for
2006 omit the world's largest flour
producer, China, and several other
major milling nations like Pakistan,
Turkey, Russia and Iran. In addition,
in countries like India, the I.G.C. report only covers the so-called commercial flour milling industry, and
thus omits a vast quantity of flour
produced by small local mills. The
same situation rules several other
countries.
The United States, turning out
18,298,000 tonnes of wheat flour in
2006, ranked well in the lead among
the nations reporting output for
the year. The second largest reporting producer was Brazil, where the
year 's output was 7,382,000 tonnes.
The significance of the countries
for which the I.G.C. was unable to
gather reliable data is indicated by
the level of their output in the last
year output was reported. In the
case of China, this was 2003, when
that nation's flour output totaled
63.9 million tonnes, which was just
about three and a half times U.S.
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production the same year.
Turkey, in the last year its output
was reported, 2004, turned out 11.7
million tonnes, and Russia, last reported for 2005, accounted for output of 10,120,000.
Production by U.S. mills in 2006,
at 18,298,000 tonnes, showed a gain
of 2.1% over the prior year but was
only 1.4% above its production a
decade earlier, in 1996. Output also
rose in Mexico, by 1.6% over the
prior year, to 2,689,000 tonnes, but
Canada, America's northern neighbor, registered a 0.5% decrease in
turning out 2,424,000 tonnes.
For the three major producers of
North America, production in 2006,
according to the I.G.C. report, totaled 23,411,000 tonnes, up 1.8%
from 22,997,000 in 2005 and 3%
more than 22,734,000 a decade earlier, in 1996.
Leading producers in Europe also
posted output increases in 2006 over
2005. Germany, the European leader,
produced 5,374,000 tonnes, up 4.1%
from the prior year and this was one
of the largest gains registered by any
nation. France produced 4,410,000
tonnes, up 1.9% from the preceding year; the United Kingdom was
at 4,433,000, up a minimal 0.1%, and
mills in Italy, turning out 4,250,000,
showed a decrease of 0.8%. Spain,
the fifth leader in E.U. flour production, turned out 3,036,000 tonnes,
down 1.2% from 2005.
The five E.U. country leaders, in
total, turned out 18,467,000 tonnes of
flour, an increase of 2% over the prior year. But the five-country total in
2006 was down 3.5% from the combined 1996 output of 19,131,000.
One of the sharpest output increases for a developed nation in
2006 occurred in The Netherlands,

24,246,000 and 2000 at 24,005,000.
Grind of durum wheat in the first
nine months of 2007 was 50,708,000
bus, down 9.5% from a record
56,036,000 in January-September 2007.
It was the smallest since 44,352,000
in the first nine months of 2004. The
record nine-month grind in 2007 compares with 2006 at 54,690,000, 1994 at
54,648,000 and 2001 at 54,568,000.
Based on these data, the semolina
extraction rate in January-September
was 75.5%, up from 73.2% in the prior
year. MBN
where the year 's production soared
to 2.1 million tonnes, up a third from
1,580,000 in 2005.
The largest flour producer in eastern Europe among nations reported
was Poland, accounting for 3 million tonnes in 2006, unchanged from
the prior year, but 52% more than
1,969,000 tonnes produced a decade
earlier in 1996. Output in Ukraine
gained 1.6% to 2,282,000 tonnes, but
this was down nearly 41% from 10
years earlier. In Romania, flour production in 2006 totaled 1,620,000
tonnes, down 7.4% from 1,750,000
in 2005, and down a third from the
1996 output.
Kazakhstan, a member of the
Commonwealth of Independent
States, and the country that ranks
first as an exporter of flour, mainly
to neighboring nations, produced
2,805,000 tonnes of wheat flour in
2006. That was up 3% from the prior
year and was 79% ahead of its 1996
output of 1,593,000.
In North Africa, the rise of Egypt's
flour milling industry, in contrast
with the time the country was a
major flour importer, is shown by
its 2006 output totaling 6,780,000
tonnes. This was up 1.5% from the
2005 aggregate of 6,680,000 and was
92% ahead of 1990 when production
reached 3.5 million.
The only other major producing nation in Africa, for which data
were available, was South Africa.
That country turned out 2,217,000
tonnes of wheat flour in 2006, up 3%
from the prior year and 9.4% above
a decade earlier.
Looking to Asia, Japan was the
leading nation for which output was
reported. Japan's output in 2006 totaled 4,616,000 tonnes, unchanged
from the preceding year and little
different from the aggregate a decade earlier.
India, where food consumption
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