United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service ISSN: 2643- 6019 North American Flour Milling Products 2020 Summary May 2021 Combined United States and Canadian All Wheat Ground for Flour Up 1 Percent From 2019 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 2019 were previously released on May 3, 2021. Canadian flour milling production numbers were released on April 28, 2021. Combined United States and Canadian all wheat ground for ground for flour was 1.04 billion bushels in 2020, an increase of 1 percent from 2019. Flour production totaled 481 million hundredweight compared to 476 million hundredweight in 2019. Combined United States and Canadian durum wheat ground for flour and semolina was 80.2 million bushels in 2020, up 8 percent from 2019. Durum flour production totaled 37.8 million hundredweight, up 7 percent from 2019. Flour Milling and Production - Unites States: 2019-2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2019 : 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 912,609 917,978 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 422,277 425,797 Millfeed production........................tons: 6,485,291 6,547,304 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 846,159 846,417 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 390,745 391,995 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 21,595 19,505 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 66,450 71,561 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 31,532 33,802 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Canada: 2019-2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2019 : 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 117,604 120,043 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 54,041 54,870 Millfeed production........................tons: 817,081 824,746 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 109,587 111,403 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 50,277 50,878 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 2,792 1,934 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 8,017 8,640 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 3,764 3,992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Unites States and Canada: 2019-2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2019 : 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 1,030,213 1,038,021 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 476,318 480,667 Millfeed production........................tons: 7,302,372 7,372,050 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 955,746 957,820 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 441,022 442,873 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 24,387 21,439 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 74,467 80,201 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 35,296 37,794 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@usda.gov Lance Honig, Chief, Crops Branch.............................. (202) 720-2127 Chris Hawthorn, Head, Field Crops Section..................... (202) 720-2127 Irwin Anolik - Crop Weather.............................. (202) 720-7621 Joshua Bates - Oats, Soybeans............................ (202) 690-3234 David Colwell - Current Agricultural Industrial Reports.. (202) 720-8800 Becky Sommer - Cotton, Cotton Ginnings, Sorghum......... (202) 720-5944 James Johanson - Barley, County Estimates, Hay........... (202) 690-8533 Greg Lemmons - Corn, Flaxseed, Proso Millet.............. (202) 720-9526 James Johanson - Rye, Wheat.............................. (202) 720-8068 John Stephens - Peanuts, Rice............................ (202) 720-7688 Travis Thorson - Sunflower, Other Oilseeds............... 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