United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service ISSN: 2643- 6019 North American Flour Milling Products 2021 Summary May 2022 Combined United States and Canadian All Wheat Ground for Flour Down 1 Percent From 2020 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 2021 were previously released on May 2, 2022. Canadian flour milling production numbers were released on April 28, 2022. Combined United States and Canadian all wheat ground for ground for flour was 1.03 billion bushels in 2021, a decrease of 1 percent from 2020. Flour production totaled 474 million hundredweight compared to 480 million hundredweight in 2020. Combined United States and Canadian durum wheat ground for flour and semolina was 71.8 million bushels in 2021, down 10 percent from 2020. Durum flour production totaled 33.7 million hundredweight, down 11 percent from 2020. Flour Milling and Production - United States: 2020-2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2020 : 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 917,978 913,380 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 425,797 421,176 Millfeed production........................tons: 6,547,304 6,639,123 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 846,417 849,260 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 391,995 390,996 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 19,505 19,081 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 71,561 64,120 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 33,802 30,180 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - Canada: 2020-2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2020 : 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 119,544 115,974 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 54,429 52,940 Millfeed production........................tons: 824,746 791,685 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 110,909 108,292 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 50,452 49,406 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 1,934 2,051 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 8,634 7,682 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 3,977 3,533 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flour Milling and Production - United States and Canada: 2020-2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item : 2020 : 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Wheat : Wheat ground for flour............1,000 bushels: 1,037,522 1,029,354 Flour production......................1,000 cwt: 480,226 474,116 Millfeed production........................tons: 7,372,050 7,430,808 Wheat, excluding durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 957,326 957,552 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 442,447 440,402 Whole wheat flour production......1,000 cwt: 21,439 21,132 Wheat, durum : Wheat ground for flour..........1,000 bushels: 80,195 71,802 Flour production....................1,000 cwt: 37,779 33,713 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Contacts Listed below are the commodity statisticians in the Crops Branch of the National Agricultural Statistics Service to contact for additional information. 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