date:May 02, 2013
Baking News divided the NAMA numbers by .951, down from .954 in 2012 and the last half of 2011 when NAMA replaced the Census Bureau. This reflects estimates on the capacity of the NAMA panel against overall U.S. levels as published in the Grain Milling Annual.
The resulting figures are 102,932,000 cwts in January-March 2013, down 0.5% from 103,462,000 in the first quarter of 2012. At the same time, production was up 2.9% from 100,024,000 cwts in the first quarter of 2011. Output in the first