Ardent Mills

MPCA: Lake City mill fined $10,200 for air permit violations

Mar 11, 2026

Ardent Mills LLC, a flour mill in Lake City, paid $10,200 for air permit violations, according to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) news release. “Results of performance tests conducted by the company on one of its air purifiers from June 10-17, 2025, showed two types of air...

Ardent Mills continues Five for Food support

Mar 27, 2024

Staff members of Ardent Mills – Lake City gathered to recognize their employer’s ninth year as a sponsor of the Five for Food Initiative for the Lake City Food Shelf. Ardent Mills – Lake City was one of the original five sponsors of the program in 2014. This year, 33 sponsors have pledged over $23...

Ardent Mills donates 10 FFA jackets to Lake City chapter

Mar 6, 2024

Ardent Mills recently donated 10 FFA Jackets to the Lake City FFA Chapter. The jackets will be for members to borrow when they do not have their own for events that require FFA Official Dress, according to Lake City High School agriculture teacher and FFA advisor Haely Leiding. “Ardent Mills is...

Fire department trains with rail car at mill

Aug 16, 2023

Lake City firefighters used a railcar at Ardent Mills in Lake City to practice confined space training last week. The department thanked Ardent Mills in a Facebook post for hosting the training.

A new bin rises at Ardent Mills

Dec 7, 2022

Ardent Mills in Lake City is building a new bin for the animal feed the company says is a co-product from milling wheat. The project to construct the 86-feet-tall, 34-feet-in-diameter bin began in September. The goal is for it to start operating in the summer of 2023. McCormick Construction is the...

Student groups tour four local manufacturing facilities on Oct. 19

Oct 26, 2022

As part of Minnesota Manufacturing Month, the Lake City Chamber of Commerce, Workforce Development, Inc., and the Lake City Port Authority organized student tours of four Lake City facilities on Oct. 19. Over 30 students from Lake City’s Lincoln High School got to see what life is like on the job...

Mill falcons get bands, names

Jun 30, 2021

A Lake City couple had a scary morning May 28 when a group of intruders chased them away with brooms and kidnapped their children. But a scary hour for parents and children is part of a decades-long effort that has helped bring the species back from the brink of extinction. For years, peregrine...

Five for Food exceeds goal in 2019

Apr 10, 2019

Sponsors of the Five for Food Initiative for the Lake City Food Shelf presented a check for $22,239 representing $10,000 in donations from sponsors and $12,639 provided by 1,234 members of the community who contributed $5 or more. Five for Food, the annual initiative of the Greater Lake City...

Flag flies again atop Lake City mill

Oct 25, 2018

Lake City’s tallest building once again has some patriotic flair. On Tuesday, members of the Lake City American Legion and VFW color guard were on hand to help Ardent Mills staff raise a six-by-nine-foot American flag up a newly-installed 25-foot flag pole on top of the 200-foot mill tower. It’s...

Mill officials present to Kiwanis Club

Sep 19, 2018

Bobby Blaser and Tracy Kinneman from Ardent Mills presented to the Lake City Kiwanis Club on Sept. 12. Pictured, from left are Erick Enger of the Kiwanis Club, Blaser, and Kinneman.