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Data

Per capita flour consumption
holds steady once again
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upward to the recent peak of 147 in 1997. After a fairly rapid 10-lb downward "correction" from that high to 136.9 lbs
in 2002, per capita consumption has held within 2 lbs of 135
in 12 of the last baker's dozen years.
While the per capita consumption of 135 lbs was down
from 136.9 lbs in 2002, overall domestic flour disappearance increased over this time span, reflecting population
growth. Domestic disappearance in 2014 was placed by the
E.R.S. at a new record high of 430,743,000, up 0.6% from
2013 and up 9% from 394,082,000 cwts in 2002. From the
recent low of 413,519,000 cwts in 2011, total utilization of
wheat flour has gained 17,224,000 cwts, or 4%.
Per capita disappearance is computed by dividing the
estimate of total wheat flour usage by the average monthly
population. The average population in 2014 was 319,173,000,
compared with 316,839,000 in 2013. The population has risen
slightly less than 1% per year over the past decade or so and
in 2014 was up 11% from 288 million in 2002.
Flour production in 2014 was 425,936,000 cwts, up slightly from 424,550,000 in 2013 and up 8% from 394,700,000
cwts in 2002. The faster growth of domestic disappearance than flour production over the past decade reflects
the gradual but steady growth of flour imports. In 2014,
flour and product imports totaled a record 13,842,000 cwts.

Flour consumption per capita
in lbs
150
140
130
120
110
100
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Imports were up 23% from 11,291,000 cwts in 2002. Before
2000, annual flour imports were consistently smaller than
10 million cwts. For instance, in 1995, flour imports were
8.9 million cwts and flour exports were 23.6 million cwts,
a dramatically different picture from 2014 when imports
were 13.8 million cwts and exports were only 5.4 million. MBN

Retail bread prices
increase in March
WASHINGTON - The average price paid for white pan
bread and whole wheat bread increased in March, according
to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
U.S. Department of Labor.
The national average retail price of white pan bread
was 144c, up 0.5c per lb from February and up 8.1c from
March 2014. On a month-to-month basis, the average price

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Average retail bread price
in cents per lb
250
200

Whole wheat bread

150
100

White pan bread

50
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor

for white pan bread in March increased in three regions -
up 1.2c in the Midwest, up 0.6c in the West and up 0.2c
in the South - and was unchanged in one region - the
Northeast.
At 204.2c per lb, the national average price for whole
wheat bread was up 1.8c per lb from February but down
2.2c per lb from March 2014.
The national average price of family flour in March was
51.8c per lb, down 0.7c from February and down 3.3c from
March 2014.
The national average price for spaghetti and macaroni in
March was 139.2c per lb, up 7.3c from February and up 8.5c
from March 2014. Chocolate chip cookies were 348.6c per
lb, up 0.9c from February and up 6.2c from March 2014. The
national average price of white long-grain rice was 67c per lb,
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