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MONTANA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS 



ALL WHEAT PRODUCTION, STOCKS AND UTILIZATION 



1973 Marketing Year 



SUPPLY 



Beginning stocks — July 1, 1973' 



Production — 1973 



Total Supply 



DISPOSITION 



Recorded movement out of State^ 



Milled for flour in Montana 



Used for seed In Montana 



Used for livestock feed^ 



Unaccounted disappearance (to balance)*. 



Total Dispositton 



Ending stocks July 1, 1974' 



MUUon 

 Bushels 



31.5 



%.7 



128^ 



91.5 



7.2 



4.8 



.8 



5^ 



109.9 

 18.3 



'Farm. Commercial and CCC facilities. 



^Reported by elevators and licensed truckers — adjusted for known incompleteness. 



utilization for feed: on farms where grown, cattle feeders, feed mills, and purchased by other farmers for feed. 



*Due to unknowns in components and probable unrecorded movement. 



WHEAT MOVEMENT TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST, UTILIZATION AND 



EXPORTS' 



By Marketing Year 19«8-73 



1968 



1%9 



1970 



1971 



1972 



1973 



ITEM 



Beginning stocks, July 1 



Production 



Ending stocks. July 1 



Available supply^ 



Shipments of wheat into Pacific Northwest^ 



(adjusted for known incompleteness) 



Total wheat used for flour in 



Pacific Northwest (Includes bulgar) 



Estimated Montana wheat milled for flour 



in Pacific Northwest (Includes bulgar)* 



Estimated Montana wheat exported 



from Pacific Northwest ports' 



Percent of available supply 



Inspected exports of Hard Red Spring, Hard 

 Rea Winter and Durum from Pacific 

 Northwest ports 



Montana exports as percent of total HRS, HRW 

 and Durum exports from Pacific N.W. ports 



'Pacific Northwest — Oregon and Washington. 



'Beginning stocks plus production minus ending stocks. 



■^Sources: 1968 and 1%9 Pacific Northwest Wheat Summary — 1970 and 1971 Montana Grain Movement project. 



<Total Paclfk: Northwest wheat millings minus estimated red wheat originating from Oregon, Washington or 

 other States. 



'Recorded Montana wheat shipped to Pacific Northwest minus estimated Montana wheat milled in Pacific 

 Northwest. 



