Milling & Baking News - August 30, 2005 - 42

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Census Bureau compilation on quarterly production of ﬂour,
grind of wheat, millfeed output on six-day weekly basis

'05

Apr-Jun-05
Jan-Mar-05

96,439
95,778

215,265
212,767

1,624,111
1,634,516

1,469
1,490

1,252
1,260

85.3%
84.6%

74.7%
75.0%

'04

Oct-Dec-04
Jul-Sep-04
Apr-Jun-04
Jan-Mar-04

99,669
100,908
96,773
96,575

222,072
224,798
214,515
214,662

1,693,507
1,740,958
1,657,232
1,672,096

1,493
1,503
1,494
1,494

1,294
1,310
1,257
1,254

86.7%
87.2%
84.1%
84.0%

74.8%
74.8%
75.2%
75.0%

'03

Millfeed,
tons

Average
Per
Daily
ﬂour
Per
cent
capacity, per work
cent extraction
cwts day, cwts operated rate
-(1,000)-

Oct-Dec-03
Jul-Sep-03
Apr-Jun-03
Jan-Mar-03

100,502
103,071
96,767
95,875

224,186
231,849
217,371
215,812

1,712,025
1,836,144
1,744,647
1,736,555

1,512
1,517
1,503
1,507

1,305
1,339
1,257
1,262

86.3%
88.2%
83.6%
83.7%

74.7%
74.1%
74.2%
74.0%

'02

Flour
Wheat
production, ground,
cwts
bus
-(1,000)-

Oct-Dec-02
Jul-Sep-02
Apr-Jun-02
Jan-Mar-02

100,275
102,132
96,276
96,017

224,441
230,327
217,626
217,020

1,795,068
1,810,406
1,657,536
1,629,984

1,499
1,489
1,473
1,493

1,302
1,326
1,250
1,263

86.9%
89.1%
84.9%
84.6%

74.5%
73.9%
73.7%
73.7%

'01

in the second quarter of 2003. In
data covering more than 25 years,
the 83.6% grind rate in April-June
2003 was the 12th-lowest. The
recent low in grind occurred in
April-June 2001 at 78.7%. The latter was the lowest operating rate
since April-June 1977, when it
was 77.8%.
Wheat grind in April-June totaled 215,265,000 bus, up 0.3% from
214,515,000 bus in the same quarter
of 2004. Peak quarterly wheat grind
was in October-December 2000
at 247,738,000 bus, followed by
July-September 2000 at 244,685,000
bus, and October-December 1999 at
242,175,000 bus.
Wheat grind in April-June 2005
increased 1.2% from 212,767,000
bus in January-March.
Average flour extraction in AprilJune, as calculated by Milling &
Baking News, was 74.7%, compared
with 75% in the first quarter and
75.2% in the second quarter of 2004.
These numbers represent a marked
rebound from the recent extraction
low of 73.2% in April-June 2001.
The latter was the lowest extraction
rate in more than 25 years. The peak
for a quarter was 76.8% in JulySeptember 1996.
Millfeed production in April-June
totaled 1,624,111 tons, down 2% from
1,657,232 in the same quarter of 2004.
Record millfeed production was in
October-December 2000 at 1,947,407
tons, followed by July-September of
that year at 1,902,206. Millfeed pro-

Oct-Dec-01
Jul-Sep-01

105,806
102,077

238,693
230,240

1,891,525
1,818,325

1,531
1,543

1,374
1,343

89.8%
87.0%

73.9%
73.9%

duction in the quarter was down 0.6%
from 1,634,516 in January-March.
Flour production in the first half
of 2005 totaled 192,217,000 cwts,
down 0.6% from 193,348,000 in the
same six months of 2004. Output
was 192,642,000 cwts in the first two
quarters of 2003, 192,293,000 in January-June 2002, 196,638,000 in the first
half of 2001 and from 202,759,000 in
January-June 2000, the record. Aver-

age monthly flour production in the
first half of 2005 was 32,036,000 cwts,
compared with 32,225,000 in JanuaryJune 2004.
January-June production of flourex-semolina totaled 177,166,000 cwts,
down 1.5% from 179,903,000 in the first
half of 2004. It was down 0.3% from
177,695,000 in the first half of 2003, up
0.4% from 176,379,000 in January-June
2002, down 1.8% from 180,338,000 in
January-June 2001 and down 5.1%
from the record 186,683,000 in the first
six months of 2000.
Average flour output per working
day in the first six months of this year
was 1,256,000 cwts, unchanged from
the same period in 2004, but down
from 1,260,000 cwts in the same two
quarters of 2003. Six-day grind in the
first half of 2005 comprised 153 days,
down from 154 in 2004.
Average rate of grind in the first half
of 2005 was 85% of six-day capacity,
unchanged from January-June 2004,
but up from 83.7% in the first half
of 2003. Wheat grind in the first half
of 2005 aggregated 428,032,000 bus,
down 0.3% from 429,177,000 in the
first half of 2004. It was 433,183,000
bus in January-June 2003. The flour
extraction rate for the first half of 2005
was 74.9%, down from 75.1% in the
first half of 2004. It was 74.1% in the
first half of 2003. Millfeed production
in the first half of 2005 was 3,258,627
tons, down 2.1% from 3,329,328 in the
first half of 2004. MBN
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