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Good afternoon all! The 2017 soft red winter wheat crop is growing and changing daily. Following is an update on this year’s crop. It is much too early at this time to predict the quality of the crop we’ll see this year, and the next few weeks will be critical to its development. Currently, the…

Work is progressing on transforming a 104-year-old commercial building in Teutopolis that has had many uses and names.  Siemer Milling President Rick Siemer explained the latest work on the building at the corner of Main and Green streets will include renovated offices for Siemer managers, an employee meeting area and a test kitchen. Siemer has…

Siemer Milling Celebrates 134th Anniversary Sunday, November 6, 2016 marks the 134th anniversary of our company's beginning in business as "Hope Mills of Uptmor & Siemer Proprietors." The partners were Clemens Uptmor, a successful storekeeper, meatpacker, and distiller in Teutopolis, his son Clemens, and his son-in-law Joseph Siemer. The latter, a young man in his…

The AACCI 2016 Annual Meeting & Special Symposium in Savannah, Georgia was held from October 23-October 26th! Siemer Milling Company is a proud sponsor of this event where food-industry professionals can learn, collaborate, and innovate together in the grain-based food industry! This targeted event draws a world-wide audience of more than 1,100 from industry, academia,…

Siemer Milling Company recently awarded $8,000 to the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois through the Siemer Milling Company Endowment. The grant, established to support youth leadership development in Effingham County, will support Effingham County Girl Scouts. Learn more by visiting this webpage.

Around 1966, we stopped using steam power and hooked up to the electric grid. The steam engine that powered the old mill back in the 1st half of the last century, was removed from the basement of the old mill (which we shut down in 1979, and tore the building down in 1994). The engine…