Going back to the early '90s, the mill ground 90 percent durum and 10 percent hard red spring wheat. Now, we grind 90 percent spring wheat and 10 percent durum. There's been a lot of consolidation in the pasta industry, with the big plants building their own mills, so the market pretty much went away for mills such as ours. Now, we package some durum for smaller, specialty-type pasta manufacturers.

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