Golden Waves Grain announced it plans to build a baking production facility in Goodland, bringing about 140 new jobs to the city. The facility will house grain milling operations and a large-scale commercial bakery under one roof. Tony Adams, the CEO of Golden Waves Grain, says Goodland is the perfect place for the project because of the city’s access to hard red winter wheat. “We may ask some of the farmers who are investors to look at some different types of wheat that would coordinate with the hard red winter wheat that we’re growing, or expand on some of the hard red winter wheat, so that’s a possibility, but right now the wheat that they grow is one of the reasons we have put this project in Goodland,” Adams said. He said the company will need about 2 million bushels of wheat each year, and the Goodland area produces about 65 million.
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