Expanding state-owned North Dakota flour mill will be biggest in U.S.

North Dakota’s state-owned flour mill, which has stood for nearly a century as a symbol of the state’s socialist past, is coming off a record year and is poised to become the largest wheat-grinding facility in the nation, its chief executive said Thursday.

General manager Vance Taylor told the state Industrial Commission that a $27 million expansion of the Grand Forks facility is underway and should be completed next summer. The mill produces about 3.8 million pounds of flour daily, and the expansion will bump production by 30 percent, he said.

By JAMES MacPHERSON

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