Milling & Baking News - May 16, 2023 - 39

COMPILATION ON QUARTERLY PRODUCTION OF FLOUR, GRIND
OF WHEAT, MILLFEED OUTPUT ON SIX-DAY WEEKLY BASIS
in the fourth quarter. Mill grind averaged
80.7% in January-March, against 83.8% in
the fourth quarter and 81% a year back.
This state grouping represented 7% of
the national outturn in January-March,
against 7.2% in the fourth quarter and a
year ago.
Kansas again ranked fourth at
7,234,000 cwts and North Dakota fifth at
7,010,000 cwts. They were followed by
Texas, 6,223,000 cwts; New Jersey and
New York, 6,041,000 cwts; Missouri,
5,893,000; Ohio, 5,795,000; Pennsylvania,
5,128,000; Minnesota, 4,967,000; Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina, 4,634,000;
Kentucky and Tennessee, 4,006,000; Colorado
and Oklahoma, 3,710,000; North Carolina,
3,587,000; Maryland and Virginia,
3,195,000; Iowa and Nebraska, 3,070,000;
and Michigan, 2,568,000. Other states
were at 5,149,000 cwts.
US total capacity in January-March
was 1,590,986 cwts, an increase of 6,300
from 1,584,686 in the fourth quarter and
a decrease of 9,344 cwts from 1,600,330 a
year ago. Capacity in most states and state
groupings remained unchanged. Changes
from a year ago such as they were highlighted
by North Dakota gaining 10,500
cwts, followed by North Carolina, 5,000,
and Kentucky and Tennessee, 2,000. The
sharpest decrease was Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina, down 14,500,
followed by Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Utah and Washington, 6,000; Iowa and
Nebraska, 5,000; Pennsylvania, 700; Kansas,
500; and Maryland and Virginia, 144.
Changes from the fourth quarter were a
gain of 5,000 cwts for North Carolina and
2,000 for Kentucky and Tennessee and a
decrease of 700 for Pennsylvania. MBN
Average
Flour
production,
cwts
-(1,000)Jan-Mar-23
Oct-Dec-22
Jul-Sep-22
Apr-Jun-22
Jan-Mar-22
Oct-Dec-21
Jul-Sep-21
Apr-Jun-21
Jan-Mar-21
Oct-Dec-20
Jul-Sep-20
Apr-Jun-20
Jan-Mar-20
104,807
106,547
109,859
107,407
106,471
108,060
106,161
103,320
103,635
106,987
108,583
102,050
108,177
Source:
US Department of Agriculture; NASS
FLOUR PRODUCTION BY STATE, STATE GROUPS
Jan.-March
2023
California
Colorado and Oklahoma
Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington
Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin
Iowa and Nebraska
Kansas
Kentucky and Tennessee
Maryland and Virginia
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey and New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Other states1
Total
(1,000 cwts)
7,344
3,710
4,634
7,318
11,935
3,070
7,234
4,006
3,195
2,568
4,967
5,893
6,041
3,587
7,010
5,795
5,128
6,223
5,149
104,807
Percent
of total
7.0%
3.5%
4.4%
7.0%
11.4%
2.9%
6.9%
3.8%
3.0%
2.5%
4.7%
5.6%
5.8%
3.4%
6.7%
5.5%
4.9%
5.9%
4.9%
100%
Daily milling
capacity
(cwts)
108,600
55,780
62,000
119,387
163,252
50,894
111,800
59,000
48,500
39,700
80,120
92,800
101,450
66,496
103,600
79,900
77,300
92,000
78,407
1,590,986
1Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine, and Louisiana combined to avoid disclosing individual operations.
Source: US Department of Agriculture, NASS
Whole wheat flour production down
14% in first three months of 2023
WASHINGTON - Production of whole
wheat flour in January-March 2023 was
4,503,000 cwts, one of the smallest totals
on record, according to data issued May
1 by the National Agricultural Statistics
Service of the US Department of Agriculture.
Production was down 747,000
cwts, or 14%, from 5,250,000 cwts in the
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first quarter of last year.
At 4,503,000 cwts, production of whole
wheat flour was the second smallest of any
quarter in the eight-plus years the NASS
has tracked whole wheat flour production.
The first-quarter figure topped only
4,471,000 cwts in April-June 2020, considered
an aberrant quarter in which bakers
Percent
operated
89.0%
87.5%
98.3%
80.7%
96.2%
79.4%
85.1%
89.3%
86.7%
85.1%
81.6%
83.6%
78.4%
71.0%
89.0%
95.4%
87.3%
89.0%
86.4%
86.7%
225,359
229,463
237,204
231,680
230,268
234,761
230,807
223,289
224,523
231,476
234,190
219,302
233,010
1,618,954
1,663,208
1,718,246
1,684,355
1,666,162
1,697,294
1,683,427
1,627,510
1,630,892
1,655,982
1,678,897
1,557,553
1,654,872
1,590,986
1,584,686
1,595,830
1,592,330
1,600,330
1,582,830
1,582,662
1,582,662
1,585,662
1,585,310
1,607,410
1,627,160
1,627,260
1,379
1,384
1,427
1,395
1,401
1,403
1,379
1,342
1,364
1,389
1,410
1,325
1,405
86.7%
87.3%
89.4%
87.6%
87.5%
88.7%
87.1%
84.8%
86.2%
87.6%
87.7%
81.5%
86.3%
77.5%
77.4%
77.2%
77.3%
77.1%
76.7%
76.7%
77.1%
76.9%
77.0%
77.3%
77.6%
77.4%
Wheat
ground,
bus
Daily
Millfeed,
tons
capacity,
cwts
flour per
work day,
cwts
Percent
operated
Extraction
rate
may have dialed back production of whole
wheat bread to maximize output of standard,
best-selling varieties in order to keep
pace with a surge in demand associated
with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
Production of 4,503,000 cwts compares
with average quarterly production of
4,789,000 cwts in 2022, 4,947,000 cwts in
2021, 5,030,000 cwts in 2020 and 5,560,000
cwts in 2019.
First-quarter production was down
5% from 4,741,000 cwts in the last three
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