Industry and Trade Summary: Milled Grains, Malts, and Starches

摘要

This report addresses trade and industry conditions for milled grain products,malts, and starches for the period 1992-96. The United States is one of the leading world grain producers and has a large grain milling industry, based on abundant U.S. supplies of wheat, corn, barley, and oats, the leading grains milled. Wheat, the leading product, is milled into flour and further processed to make foods; smaller amounts go into starch, gluten, and some industrial products. The U.S. corn milling industry chiefly produces starch, corn sweeteners, and feedstuffs and, secondarily, corn meal and flour. Barley goes mainly to make malt used in beer, while milled oats are used in breakfast cereals and other foods.