The USDA issued its Fourth Quarter Flour Milling Product Report Feb. 1. To view the report, click here.

All wheat ground for flour during the fourth quarter 2022 was 229 million bushels, down 3 percent from the third quarter 2022 grind of 237 million bushels and down 2 percent from the fourth quarter 2021 grind of 235 million bushels.

Fourth quarter 2022 total flour production was 107 million hundredweight, down 3 percent from the third quarter 2022 and down 1 percent from the fourth quarter 2021.

Whole wheat flour production at 4.74 million hundredweight during the fourth quarter 2022 accounted for 4 percent of the total flour production.

Millfeed production from wheat in the fourth quarter 2022 was 1.66 million tons.

The daily 24-hour milling capacity of wheat flour during the fourth quarter 2022 was 1.58 million hundredweight.

Durum wheat ground for flour and semolina production during the fourth quarter of 2022 totaled 16.5 million bushels, up 5 percent from the third quarter 2022 and up 4 percent from the fourth quarter 2021.

Fourth quarter 2022 durum flour and semolina production was 8.02 million hundredweight, up 7 percent from the third quarter 2022 and up 6 percent from the fourth quarter 2021.

Whole wheat durum flour and semolina production was 120,000 hundredweight, down 2 percent from 123,000 hundredweight in the third quarter 2022 and down 33 percent from 179,000 hundredweight from the fourth quarter 2021.

Fourth quarter durum wheat millfeed production was 103,085 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 2022 was 390,000 bushels, down 5 percent from the third quarter 2022 and down 13 percent from the fourth quarter 2021.

Rye flour production during the fourth quarter of 2022 was 178,000 hundredweight, compared to 186,000 hundredweight in the previous quarter and 207,000 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 2022.