Rocky Mountain Flour sifts bakery, retail markets

Rocky Mountain Flour sifts bakery, retail markets

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BEVERLY MCCONNICO
PLATTEVILLE — Rocky Mountain Flour Milling LLC, which began operations here in June, uses a unique process to mill organic wheats into nine different kinds of flours.

The concept was first conceived several years ago in the mind of Steven Curran, president of the company. Curran developed and patented the milling process while he was teaching flour milling at Kansas State University.
Now labeled "a short-flow flour mill," the process takes the wheat through fewer steps in a more compact space, Curran explained.
"Traditional flour mills take up a lot of space, a…