Top 18 Flour Manufacturers and Flour Mills in the USA

Although there are several mills that sell flour, many of them also sell extra items like cornmeal and mixes. Although all-purpose flour is a common form, there are also more specialized varieties of flour for making cookies, pasta, and other goods.

For the purpose of improving the texture of the meal they will be put into, gluten-containing flours are also available in a variety of doses. To assist you in your sourcing efforts, we’ll discuss the ¹North American Millers‘ Association members that mill wheat for flour in this post.

Lakeside Mills in Spindale

For retail, wholesale, and restaurant uses, Lakeside Mills in Spindale, North Carolina, provides flour and cornmeal products. They sell grits, cornmeal, self-rising flour, hush puppy mix, food mixes, and bread.

C. H. Guenther & So

For the food service and consumer industries, C. H. Guenther & Son in San Antonio, Texas, provides gravy, sauces, baking mixes, desserts, oven-ready snacks, and meals. Customized pizza, white, corn tortillas, and consumer flours are some of their goods.

Snavely’s Mil

White, whole wheat, rye, and organic flour are all available at Snavely’s Mill, which has its headquarters in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Speciality items include kosher, matzo, yoshon, and high protein spelt flour. They provide services to industrial and speciality bakers, CPG producers, distributors, and restaurants.

Since 1875, when John Snavely purchased the original 1790 mill and sowed the seeds for a successful family business, six generations of the Snavely family have been producing quality flour products.

Teutopolis, Illinois

Teutopolis, Illinois is home to Siemer Milling Company. The business provides animal feed, industrial binding and flow agents, wheat bran and germ, additives, heat-treated ingredients, and baking flour. Their selection of flour includes custom, heat-treated, bulk, hotel and restaurant, and baking variations.

The Mennel Milling Company

The Mennel Milling Company in Fostoria, Ohio sells popcorn along with soft wheat, hard and spring wheat, bakery and restaurant flour, and speciality flour. Heat-treated, organic, self-rising, cake and pregelatinized flour are some of their speciality flours.

The Lowell, Michigan-based King Milling Company

The Lowell, Michigan-based King Milling Company sells soft, hard, and whole wheat flour as well as wheat bran and whole wheat berries. They provide delivery for 50,000 and 75,000 lb truckloads of their flour, which is available in 25, 50, and 2,000 lb bags.

ADM Milling Company.

The food and beverage, fuel, animal nutrition, and industrial sectors are catered to by ADM Milling Company. The business is based in Overland Park, Kansas, and sells specialised flours as well as wheat, whole wheat, organic, and non-GMO flours.

Shawnee Milling Company 

For the food service sector, Shawnee Milling Company in Shawnee, Oklahoma, provides cornmeal, baking mixes, self-rising and all-purpose flour, as well as special blends. Coatings, batters, pizza bread, gravy, baking mixes, and bespoke wheat are among their special mixtures.

Hopkinsville Milling Company

For retail use, Hopkinsville Milling Company provides plain and self-rising flour, grits, cornmeal, and blends of white and yellow self-rising cornmeal. The business’s main office is in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Wilkins Rogers Mills

Wilkins Rogers Mills sells consumer, food service, commercial, and private-label flour and cornmeal in Ellicott City, Maryland. They provide whole wheat, cake, pastry, pie, pretzel, and cookie flours. They also provide private label choices, such as all-purpose, self-rising, whole wheat, and soft wheat flour.

West Milling Company.

Frankenmuth, Michigan serves as the home base for Star of the West Milling Company. The business sells whole wheat, red and white wheat cake, blended, coarse, and high ash flours, as well as dry beans, soybeans, and flour products.

All hands are on the mill floor at Star of the West Milling. The company operates five flour mills in four US states and about 10 storage elevators. The mills and elevators store and process wheat, corn, and soybeans. Its flour milling capacity is about 20,000 lbs. per day.

²North Star Bean, a division of Star of the West, processes beans such as navy, pinto, kidney, and black beans into dry commodity products.

The company also owns Eastern Michigan Grain, an elevator that offers grain handling and marketing services. Star of the West Milling sells its flour and beans worldwide to canning and packaging customers the likes of Kellogg, General Mills, Nabisco, and Pepperidge Farm.

Dakota Mill & Elevator

State-owned North Dakota Mill & Elevator sells all-purpose, bread, and whole wheat flour in bags of 5, 10, and 25 pounds, along with bread machine and pancake mix. The company, which caters to the retail and food service industries, is headquartered in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Knappen Milling Company

Knappen Milling Company, based in Augusta, Michigan, provides all-purpose baking flour for retail uses. The business deals with soft white, soft red, and hard red wheat; it is also certified organic.

Italgrani USA.

Located in St. Louis, Missouri, is Italgrani USA. Semolina and durum flours, as well as fancy patent, extra fancy patent, first and second clear flour, organic, and custom flours, are milled by the firm and sold by the tote, bag, or in bulk. Also available are wheat midds.

The Miller Milling Company

The Miller Milling Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota sells flour with different levels of gluten, as well as all-purpose, whole wheat, white, malted barley, durum patent and durum extra fancy patent flours, as well as durum semolina flour. The business also provides tailored flour blending.

Minot Milling Company

In the commercial food processing sector, Minot Milling Company provides semolina, hard red spring, organic, and mixed flours for pasta and baking applications. Based in Minot, North Dakota, the business also provides customized flour.

 Ardent Mills 

Numerous varieties of flour, including organic, global food, and hyper grain flours, are available at Ardent Mills in Denver, Colorado, along with artisanal bread, heirloom grains, mixes, bran, germ, mill feed, and aleurone. In the United States, the firm has approximately 35 mills and mixing facilities.

Grain Craft

Products for hotels and restaurants from Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Grain Craft include bakery, cake, high gluten, pizza, pastry, cookie, whole wheat, pasta, and tortilla flour. The business is the biggest independent miller of flour in the country.

Conclusion

The North American Millers’ Association members who mill wheat for this guide’s flour have been described in length and summarized.

Additional resources and citations

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  North American Millers
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  North Star Bean,