Stengel Seed & Grain
14698 State Hwy 15
Milbank, SD 57252
About Us
Company History
Stengel Seed and Grain is a 50 year-old family business owned by Doug Stengel. Stengel Seed and Grain is a toll cleaner of all types of grains, seeds and edible beans for the organic food industry. With five cleaning lines and two color sorters, the company can run different products simultaneously to efficiently meet the needs of customers.
Stengel's' father and grandfather began grain cleaning their seeds while farming. While the process of cleaning grain has not changed greatly over the last 100 years, the equipment used has been improved, incorporating modern technology.
Modern food industry requires near perfection in product purity. This often requires very specialized equipment to achieve the purities the toll customers require. Stengel Grain frequently builds customer specific machinery to meet the customers' needs.
Our Process
Growers in the Midwest and Canada truck their grain to Stengel Seed and Grain plant near Milbank, SD. The product is cleaned and packaged according to customer specifications in sizes of 25 lb., 50 lb., 66 lb., 25 kg., 30 kg up to 1,000 kg totes or true bulk loads. Orders ship by truck domestically in the U.S. and in overseas containers to Europe and Japan.
Staff
Stengel Seed and Grain hires and retains excellent employees who develop skills in specific areas and develop relationships with customers over a period of many years.
- Doug Stengel-CEO
- Malinda Word- Office Manager
- Molly Sinclair-Quality Assurance Manager/PCQ1
- Mike Robertson-Plant Manager
- Nick Steltz-Bean & Barley Plant Manager
- Alex Pauli -Maintenance/Bean Plant Assistant
- Corrine Stengel -Quality Control
- Alec Schumacher - Warehouse & Packaging
Product List
Cleaning Services Provided
Lentils-all varieties, decortication available.
Barley-hulled and pearled traceable to the organic farm field level to insure quality control.
Edible beans- all varieties.
Cereal grains-wheat, rye, kernza, ancient cereals dehulled/whole.
Peas-green and yellow, whole or split.
Buckwheat-whole.
Sorghum-whole, hulled, pearled, or cracked.
Corn-white, blue, and yellow.
Flax-both brown and golden varieties.
Possibly other products by request and mutual agreement.
The Latest News
Our business continues to grow and as such, we continue to add additional processing and cleaning lines, which also indicates a need for additional building space. In recent years we have added plant space on a regular basis.
In 2017, an additional warehouse was built, including a fine dirt removal machine and an additional color sorter.
In 2018, a building addition for extra finishing space including a color sorter & packaging area was built. A large on-site refrigerated warehouse was added in 2019.
In 2022, our fully automated packaging line was finished. Allowing for quicker packaging into 25 to 50lb paper bags.
FAQs
- What are your docking hours? Trucks can load/unload between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. CT, Monday through Thursday. Friday docking hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Are you open on holidays? No, we are closed for all national holidays.
- Do you have truck parking available for overnights? No overnight parking is permitted.