First Quarter Flour Production Report

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s First Quarter Flour Milling Products report issued May 1, all wheat ground for flour during the first quarter 2025 was 230 million bushels, down 1% from the fourth quarter 2024 grind of 231 million bushels but up 1% from the first quarter 2024 grind of 227 million bushels.

First quarter 2025 total flour production was 106 million hundredweight, down 1% from the fourth quarter 2024 but up 1% from the first quarter 2024. Whole wheat flour production, at 4.49 million hundredweight during the first quarter 2025, accounted for 4% of the total flour production. Millfeed production from wheat in the first quarter 2025 was 1.62 million tons. The daily 24-hour milling capacity of wheat flour during the first quarter 2025 was 1.60 million hundredweight.

Durum wheat ground for flour and semolina production during the first quarter of 2025 totaled 17.4 million bushels, up 2% from the fourth quarter 2024 and up 4% from the first quarter 2024.

First quarter 2025 durum flour and semolina production was 8.37 million hundredweight, up 1% from the fourth quarter 2024 and up 4% from the first quarter 2024.

Whole wheat durum flour and semolina production was 89,000 hundredweight, up 27% from 70,000 hundredweight in the fourth quarter 2024 and up 65% from 54,000 hundredweight from the first quarter 2024.

First quarter durum wheat millfeed production was 109,323 tons and the daily 24-hour milling capacity for durum and semolina production was 134,730 hundredweight.

Rye ground for flour during the first quarter of 2025 was 341,000 bushels, up 3% from the fourth quarter 2024 but down 10% from the first quarter 2024.

Rye flour production during the first quarter of 2025 was 153,000 hundredweight, compared to 152,000 hundredweight in the previous quarter and 175,000 hundredweight in the same quarter for the previous year.

The daily 24-hour milling capacity for rye milling was 9,655 hundredweight for the first quarter 2025.

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