Germany: Number of commercial mills almost constant - spelled grinding increased again

10/26/2021 | 11:54:00 | ID: 31327 | Department: Agriculture | agricultural economics Bonn (agrar-PR) - In the 2020/21 financial year, the 185 German commercial mills ground around 8.76 million tons of grain, of which around 310,000 tons were spelled, which is almost 60,000 tons more than in the previous year. The Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL) has now published the current data on the milling industry for 2021. The number of mills decreased by another two mills, so that 185 mills were active in the current financial year. The total amount of ground grain is divided into around 7.3 million tons of common wheat, 670,000 tons of rye, almost 310,000 tons of spelled and 440,000 tons of durum wheat. The average grinding per mill has remained almost the same at 47,351 tons. Grinding of spelled increased significantly Almost 310,000 tons of spelled were ground, which corresponds to an increase of almost 60,000 tons compared to the previous year. This was used to produce ...