Wells Fargo Home Loans and the rest of the major producers of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities saw sharp declines in their volume in the program during the first six months of 2005. Wells remained the largest Ginnie Mae issuer by a wide margin with $12.60 billion in production through the first half of the year. But that was down 35 percent from the same period in 2004, while overall Ginnie issuance dropped 40 percent. [Data table included]