This is a rendering of the $241 million wheat flour mill that the P&H Milling Group plans to build in Alberta’s Red Deer County. Construction is expected to generate up to 200 jobs, with 27 full-time skilled positions available once operational. | P&H illustration

New flour mills planned as population surges

P&H says increased demand behind plans to build wheat milling facility in Alberta and expand an existing mill in Ontario

SASKATOON — A major Canadian grain company is building two new wheat flour mills in response to rising domestic consumption of the product. “We’re seeing the demand pinch and so we knew we had to expand,” said Mike Warkentin, director of special projects and stakeholder relations with P&H Milling Group, a division of Parrish & […] Read more

Farmers say the biggest impact from the closure of Parrish & Heimbecker’s Glossop elevator will be for producers needing quick grain movement at harvest.  |  File photo

P&H closes Man. elevator

Producers around Strathclair, Man., lost one of their elevators at the end of January. Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd. closed its Glossop location, between Strathclair and Newdale on the Yellowhead Highway, on Jan. 31. P&H’s crop input operations on the site, however, will continue unchanged, the company said. “Our crop inputs business, which includes seed, fertilizer […] Read more

Fire crews responded to the blaze after receiving a report of the incident shortly after 9:30 a.m. Friday. | Video screencap via Twitter.com/@98COOLfm and Ryan O.

Fire breaks out at Saskatoon flour mill

MEDICINE HAT — A fire broke out at the P&H Mill in Saskatoon this morning, according to a release from the city’s fire department. Fire crews responded to the blaze after receiving a report of the incident shortly after 9:30 a.m. Friday. More than a dozen fire trucks had been dispatched to the scene as […] Read more