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Data

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Flour production in April-June down 2.2%
from year ago; half-year down 0.3%
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was set in October-December 2000, at
109,673,000 cwts, followed by JulySeptember 2007 at 109,017,000 and
July-September 2000 at 108,838,000.
Output in 40 quarters has exceeded
100 million cwts.
The North American Millers' Association provides funding to the
Census Bureau in support of the
compilation of these quarterly milling statistics
The peak in April-June output came in 1999, at 103,463,000

groupings. However, there were significant changes for a few: Montana
and Idaho, (interpolated) up 121,000
cwts; New York and New Jersey, up
43,000; Georgia, Florida and South
Carolina, up 26,000; Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, up 23,000; and
California, up 13,000. Nebraska and
Iowa was down 126,000 and Missouri was down 105,000.
April-June durum semolina production was down 6.1% from a
year ago; it was down 8.5% from
the first quarter. The decrease in

Census Bureau compilation on quarterly production of flour,
grind of wheat, millfeed output on six-day weekly basis
Flour
Wheat
production, ground,
cwts
bus
-(1,000)-

Millfeed,
tons

Average
Per
Daily
flour
Per
cent
capacity, per work cent extraction
cwts day, cwts operated rate
-(1,000)-

Apr-Jun-10
Jan-Mar-10

100,630
102,319

217,543
220,755

1,556,860
1,583,167

1,540
1,536

1,307
1,346

84.9%
87.6%

77.1%
77.2%

Oct-Dec-09
Jul-Sep-09
Apr-Jun-09
Jan-Mar-09

103,717
107,353
102,926
100,662

224,558
232,719
221,176
217,607

1,600,483
1,677,859
1,606,323
1,575,673

1,534
1,536
1,534
1,532

1,347
1,394
1,337
1,325

87.8%
90.8%
87.1%
86.5%

77.0%
76.9%
77.6%
77.1%

Oct-Dec-08
Jul-Sep-08
Apr-Jun-08
Jan-Mar-08

104,218
108,175
102,508
101,382

225,299
235,196
224,304
223,180

1,630,569
1,755,773
1,702,000
1,664,474

1,531
1,543
1,548
1,548

1,353
1,405
1,331
1,317

88.4%
91.0%
86.0%
85.1%

77.1%
76.7%
76.2%
75.7%

Oct-Dec-07
Jul-Sep-07
Apr-Jun-07
Jan-Mar-07

107,063
109,017
102,501
100,255

236,285
239,315
226,149
222,007

1,784,596
1,869,622
1,750,026
1,698,633

1,535
1,535
1,530
1,529

1,390
1,434
1,331
1,302

90.6%
93.4%
87.0%
85.2%

75.5%
75.9%
75.5%
75.3%

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durum semolina output from a year
ago, 488,000 cwts, accounted for
21.3% of the output reduction. Flour
output-ex-semolina in April-June
totaled 93,088,000 cwts, down 1.9%

Capacity at 1,540,000 cwts
The Census Bureau placed the
24-hour capacity of U.S. mills in the
second quarter at 1,540,000 cwts, up
4,000 cwts from January-March and
up 6,000 from the same quarter of
2009. Peak U.S. flour milling daily
capacity was in April-June 2001 at
1,604,000 cwts.
Mills at 84.9% of six-day capacity
Based on these capacity data, U.S.
mills in April-June 2010 operated at
84.9% of six-day capacity, compared
with 87.6% in January-March and
87.1% in April-June 2009. It was the
lowest rate of grind since the second
quarter of 2006 when it also was
84.9%. The recent low in grind occurred in April-June 2001, at 78.7%.
The latter was the slowest operating
rate since April-June 1977 at 77.8%.
It was 90.8% as recently as July-September 2009.
Wheat grind in April-June totaled
217,543,000 bus, down 1.6% from

Quarterly flour milling operating rate

Jan.-March
1995
Jan.-March
1996
Jan.-March
1997
Jan.-March
1998
Jan.-March
1999
Jan.-March
2000
Jan.-March
2001
Jan.-March
2002
Jan.-March
2003
Jan.-March
2004
Jan.-March
2005
Jan.-March
2006
Jan.-March
2007
Jan.-March
2008
Jan.-March
2009
Jan.-March
2010

Based on six-day milling capacity

cwts. This was followed by 2009 at
102,926,000, 2008 at 102,508,000 and
2007 at 102,501,000.
Second-quarter flour production in
2010 decreased 1.7% from the revised
102,319,000 cwts produced in January-March.
This was the first time
100%
since 2006 that secondquarter production failed
95%
to be larger than in the
90%
first three months.
The current report re85%
duced
January-March
2010 production by 5,000
80%
cwts from the initial estimate.
75%
January-March production was left unchanged
from the initial report in
the case of most states and

from 94,896,000 in the same quarter
of 2009. It also was down 1.1% from
94,077,000 in the first quarter of the
year. The record for quarterly flourex-semolina output occurred in October-December 2000 at 101,929,000.
Monthly flour production in the
second quarter averaged 33,825,000
cwts, compared with 34,106,000 in
the first quarter and 34,309,000 in
April-June 2009.
Average flour production per
working day in April-June, based
on a six-day week and calculated
by Milling & Baking News, was
1,307,000 cwts, against 1,346,000
in January-March and 1,337,000 in
April-June 2009.
Average daily output in the second quarter was based on 77 working days, up from 76 in the first
quarter and unchanged from the
same quarter in 2009.

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