date:Nov 20, 2013
icos output for the four years gained, while Canada and the United States held barely steady or decreased slightly.
The steady course of North American output was closely paralleled in Western Europe, even though some country changes were quite large. Germany, Europes leading flour miller, turned out 6,387,000 tonnes in 2011, up 13.7% from the prior year and on top of a 4.4% gain in 2010. Its 2011 output was up 21% from four years earlier. In contrast, U.K. flour output in 2011 fell 19% to 4.1