date:Aug 05, 2013
, Milling Baking News computed the aggregate of the past four quarters July-June at a historical high of 422,797,000 cwts, topping January-December 2000, the established annual peak, at 421,270,000, by a small margin. The comparison would suggest that flour production in 2013 may be on pace to establish a new calendar year high.
Flour mills operated at 87.9% of six-day capacity in April-June, down from 88.4% in the first quarter but up from 86.7% in the second quarter of 2012. For the six-day