United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service ISSN: 2643- 6019 North American Flour Milling Products 2018 Summary May 2019 Combined United States and Canadian All Wheat Ground for Flour Up Less Than 1 Percent From 2017 This publication is a result of a joint effort by Statistics Canada and USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service to release the flour milling production information for both countries within one publication. United States flour milling production numbers for 2018 were previously released on May 1, 2019. Canadian flour milling production numbers were released on April 26, 2019. Combined United States and Canadian all wheat ground for ground for flour was 1.04 billion bushels in 2018, an increase of less than 1 percent from 2017. Flour production totaled 480 million hundredweight compared to 478 million hundretweight in 2017. Combined United States and Canadian durum wheat ground for flour and semolina was 75.1 million bushels in 2018, up 1 percent from 2017. Durum flour production totaled 35.6 million hundredweight, up 1 percent from 2017. Flour Milling and Production - Unites States: 2017-2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2017 : 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 917,816 918,373 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 426,399 426,871 Millfeed production........................tons: 6,447,274 6,458,017 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 851,442 851,287 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 394,600 394,920 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 21,912 21,739 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 66,374 67,086 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 31,799 31,951 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Canada: 2017-2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2017 : 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 113,060 117,219 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 51,559 52,988 Millfeed production........................tons: 789,771 809,417 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 105,153 109,233 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 47,914 49,316 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 2,880 3,162 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 7,907 7,986 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 3,645 3,672 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Unites States and Canada: 2017-2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2017 : 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 1,030,876 1,035,592 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 477,958 479,859 Millfeed production........................tons: 7,237,045 7,267,434 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 956,595 960,520 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 442,514 444,236 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 24,792 24,901 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 74,281 75,072 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 35,444 35,623 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Contacts Listed below are the commodity statisticians in the Crops Branch of the National Agricultural Statistics Service to contact for additional information. E-mail inquiries may be sent to nass@nass.usda.gov. Lance Honig, Chief, Crops Branch............................ (202) 720-2127 Anthony Prillaman, Head, Field Crops Section................ (202) 720-2127 David Colwell - Current Agricultural Industrial Reports.. (202) 720-8800 Chris Hawthorn - Corn, Flaxseed, Proso Millet............ (202) 720-9526 James Johanson - County Estimates, Hay................... (202) 690-8533 Jeff Lemmons - Oats, Soybeans............................ (202) 690-3234 Jannety Mosley - Crop Weather, Barley.................... (202) 720-7621 Sammy Neal - Peanuts, Rice............................... (202) 720-7688 Jean Porter - Rye, Wheat................................. (202) 720-8068 Chris Singh - Cotton, Cotton Ginnings, Sorghum........... (202) 720-5944 Travis Thorson - Sunflower, Other Oilseeds............... 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