United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service ISSN: 2643- 6019 North American Flour Milling Products 2019 Summary May 2020 Combined United States and Canadian All Wheat Ground for Flour Down 1 Percent From 2018 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 1, 2020. Canadian flour milling production numbers were released on April 28, 2020. Combined United States and Canadian all wheat ground for ground for flour was 1.03 billion bushels in 2019, a decrease of 1 percent from 2018. Flour production totaled 476 million hundredweight compared to 480 million hundredweight in 2018. Combined United States and Canadian durum wheat ground for flour and semolina was 74.5 million bushels in 2019, down 1 percent from 2018. Durum flour production totaled 35.3 million hundredweight, down 1 percent from 2018. Flour Milling and Production - Unites States: 2018-2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2018 : 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 918,373 912,609 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 426,871 422,277 Millfeed production........................tons: 6,458,017 6,485,291 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 851,287 846,159 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 394,920 390,745 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 21,739 21,595 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 67,086 66,450 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 31,951 31,532 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Canada: 2018-2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2018 : 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 117,219 117,604 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 52,988 54,041 Millfeed production........................tons: 809,417 817,081 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 109,233 109,587 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 49,316 50,277 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 3,162 2,792 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 7,986 8,017 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 3,672 3,764 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Unites States and Canada: 2018-2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2018 : 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 1,035,592 1,030,213 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 479,859 476,318 Millfeed production........................tons: 7,267,434 7,302,372 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 960,520 955,746 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 444,236 441,022 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 24,901 24,387 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 75,072 74,467 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 35,623 35,296 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Chris Hawthorn, 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 Irwin Anolik - Crop Weather.............................. (202) 720-7621 Chris Hawthorn - Peanuts, Rice........................... (202) 720-7688 Jean Porter - Rye, Wheat................................. (202) 720-8068 Chris Singh - Cotton, Cotton Ginnings, Sorghum........... (202) 720-5944 Travis Thorson - Barley, Sunflower, Other Oilseeds....... 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