Green Acres Milling, a food-grade oat milling plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota, US, is set to begin operations in September.

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Green Acres Milling founders Anne and Landon Plagge.

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Green Acres Milling founder Landon Plagge convinced 130 farmers to become company shareholders and to supply oats to the mill.

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Todd & Sargent, Ames, Iowa, US, oversaw construction of the 140-foot-tall, 130,000-square-foot facility.

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Knobelsdorf, Goodhue, Minnesota, US, installed its TerraKE automation system that Green Acres Milling says provides excellent traceability throughout the milling process.

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Custom-designed storage bins, manufactured by Meridian in Storm Lake, Iowa, hold the oats prior to milling.

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Uzwil, Switzerland-based Bühler installed much of the equipment inside the mill, including this flaking mill.

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Bühler MVSR aspirators will be utilized in the mill.

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Burnham installed a 150-horsepower commercial boiler unit in the Green Acres Milling plant.

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