Wheat flour production down 2% from the third quarter 2025
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fourth Quarter Flour Milling Products report issued February 2, all wheat ground for flour during the fourth quarter 2025 was 228 million bushels, down 2% from the third quarter 2025 grind of 231 million bushels and down 1% from the fourth quarter 2024 grind of 231 million bushels.
Fourth quarter 2025 total flour production was 105 million hundredweight, down 1% from the third quarter 2025 and down 2% from the fourth quarter 2024. Whole wheat flour production at 4.4 million hundredweight during the fourth quarter 2025 accounted for 4% of the total flour production. Millfeed production from wheat in the fourth quarter 2025 was 1.62 million tons. The daily 24-hour milling capacity of wheat flour during the fourth quarter 2025 was 1.6 million hundredweight.
Durum wheat ground for flour and semolina production during the fourth quarter of 2025 totaled 16.2 million bushels, down 1% from the third quarter 2025 and down 5% from the fourth quarter 2024. Fourth quarter 2025 durum flour and semolina production was 7.61 million hundredweight, down 1% from the third quarter 2025 and down 8% from the fourth quarter 2024. Whole wheat durum flour and semolina production was 62,000 hundredweight, down 6% from 66,000 hundredweight in the third quarter 2025 and down 11% from 70,000 hundredweight from the fourth quarter 2024.
Fourth quarter durum wheat millfeed production was 103,707 tons, and the daily 24-hour milling capacity for durum and semolina production was 134,730 hundredweight.
Rye ground for flour during the fourth quarter of 2025 was 342,000 bushels, down 7% from the third quarter 2025 but up 3% from the fourth quarter 2024.
Rye flour production during the fourth quarter of 2025 was 160,000 hundredweight, compared to 157,000 hundredweight in the previous quarter and 152,000 hundredweight in the same quarter for the previous year.
The daily 24-hour milling capacity for rye milling was 9,365 hundredweight for the fourth quarter 2025.
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