The company debuts its unique mill-to-mix model in Richmond, UT.
Greenfield Milling began flour production in February 2025. It expects to have mixing and blending capabilities online in early 2026. All photos by Randy Quarles WrightLight Imagery.
In February 2025, Greenfield Milling began flour production at a state-of-the-art, 7,500-cwt.-per-day mill in Richmond, UT as part of a supply agreement with Campbell’s. But flour milling is just a small part of this story.
The project’s first phase concluded with the launch of a 7,500-cwt. flour mill. By early next year, a three-story mixing and co-packing facility will come online to complete Phase 2. Phase 3, set to begin in 2026, will add another 7,500-cwt. milling unit to the site.
This “mill-to-mix” model, says co-CEOs and -founders Bryan Ledgerwood and John Mason, “is what sets us apart.” The pair of industry veterans have known each other since their days at ConAgra Mills in the early ‘90s.
“Almost nobody is doing it like us,” they tell Milling Journal.
Next-door Neighbors
Greenfield Milling was formed in 2022 by Ledgerwood and Mason with minority partner Nippn Corporation of Tokyo, Japan. At that time, Greenfield began a 20-year partnership with Campbell’s to supply its Pepperidge Farms snack production facility in Richmond.
That same year, Greenfield broke ground adjacent to the Pepperidge Farms facility. “The idea,” says Ledgerwood, “is that building the facility next door means we simply pump the flour from our place to there’s.” Mason explains that finished flour from the Greenfield mill is conveyed pneumatically to Pepperidge Farms on-demand. “They can turn on the tap, so to speak, and have all the flour they need at a moment’s notice.”
For Pepperidge Farms, this means no more flour deliveries by truck, which clears up traffic on-site and reduces its carbon footprint by eliminating thousands of semi-truck deliveries annually. “It also helps with flour quality,” explains Ledgerwood, “by eliminating the proliferation of foreign material that’s inherent to truck transport.”
To design and build the integrated mill-to-mix facility, Greenfield hired Bratney, Des Moines, IA, as general contractor and engineer. “We were happy to partner with Bratney,” says Ledgerwood. “Given their wide range of expertise, they’re a one-stop shop.
“Bratney took ownership over all facets of the project and handled various challenges, so we didn’t have to deal with any issues that arose throughout the process,” he adds.
“We have the tallest structure in Cache County,” notes Mason. “Bratney helped us work with the county and city to secure the proper permitting.”
Despite what Mason calls a “COVID hangover” of the supply chain, flour production began on time in February 2025.
Mill Details
Greenfield Milling takes advantage of the remarkable variety of wheat grown in and around northern Utah. The mill processes soft white wheat, hard red winter wheat, spring wheats, and some organics, the majority of which is trucked in from farms in an approximately 100-mile radius.
To store such a range of wheat varieties, the mill built 1 million bushels of GSI steel storage, including: two 300,000-bushel flat-bottom bins, six 50,000-bushel hopper-bottom bins, and four 25,000-bushel bins, two of which dedicated for organic wheat.
The five-floor mill is supplied largely by Italian supplier OMAS, a Bratney partner. The first floor is equipped with 19 OMAS Leonardo rollstands (16 single-high and three double-high). The third floor utilizes six OMAS Michelangelo purifiers and three OMAS Raffaello bran finishers. Three OMAS Galileo plansifters were installed on the fourth floor. To help seperate flour from bran, eight OMAS Cimabue impact detachers were stationed on the fifth floor.
The mill is fully automated using Interstates’ I-Control automation system, which allows Greenfield to “run lean,” says Ledgerwood, with 34 full-time employees, most working the packing floor. The company expects to hire seven more full-time workers when it builds a second milling unit in Phase 2.
Greenfield’s packing floor features Italpack automated bagging/filling equipment, allowing for efficient packaging of flour intended for shipment. The company says roughly 45% of its current production goes to Pepperidge Farms to produce Goldfish® crackers. The rest is filled into retail bags from 2-50 pounds or 2,000-pound totes.
Greater Ambitions
For Greenfield Milling, Richmond is just the beginning. In September, the company announced a lease agreement to operate certain former assets of Panhandle Milling in Hereford, TX to assist its mixing business.
“We’re very excited about the model we’ve created [in Richmond],” Mason expresses. And while he declined to share concrete details, “Our vision is to continue to grow as a mill-mix company.”
