USDA Fourth Quarter Flour Milling Products Report ... Down 1% From Third Quarter 2020
Released Feb. 1, 2021 by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture.
All wheat ground for flour during the fourth quarter 2020 was 231 million bushels, down 1 percent from the third quarter 2020 grind of 234 million bushels and down less than 1 percent from the fourth quarter 2019 grind of 232 million bushels. Fourth quarter 2020 total flour production was 107 million hundredweight, down 1 percent from the third quarter 2020 and down 1 percent from the fourth quarter 2019. Whole wheat flour production at 4.85 million hundredweight during the fourth quarter 2020 accounted for 5 percent of the total flour production. Millfeed production from wheat in the fourth quarter 2020 was 1.66 million tons. The daily 24-hour milling capacity of wheat flour during the fourth quarter 2020 was 1.58 million hundredweight.
Durum wheat ground for flour and semolina production during the fourth quarter of 2020 totaled 17.3 million bushels, down 1 percent from the third quarter 2020 and down 4 percent from the fourth quarter 2019. Fourth quarter 2020 durum flour and semolina production was 8.20 million hundredweight, down 1 percent from the third quarter 2020 and down 4 percent from the fourth quarter 2019.
Whole wheat durum flour and semolina production was 147,000 hundredweight, up 10 percent from 134,000 hundredweight in the third quarter 2020 but down 8 percent from 160,000 hundredweight from the fourth quarter 2019.
Fourth quarter durum wheat millfeed production was 116,884 tons and the daily 24-hour milling capacity for durum and semolina production was 131,730 hundredweight.
Rye ground for flour during the fourth quarter of 2020 was 474,000 bushels, up 5 percent from the third quarter 2020 and up 4 percent from the fourth quarter 2019.
Rye flour production during the fourth quarter of 2020 was 216,000 hundredweight, compared to 210,000 hundredweight in the previous quarter and 214,000 hundredweight in the same quarter for the previous year.
The daily 24-hour milling capacity for rye milling was 9,655 hundredweight for the fourth quarter 2020.
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