When the trio of John Mason, John Cure and Bryan Ledgerwood formed the partnership that took the reins of Panhandle Milling in Dawn on Jan. 7, they set out to take the business back to its roots.
“In the old days, they tell stories how the farmers would come here and play dominoes,” Mason, 50, recalled.
That’s why the new owners changed the name of the operation from Richardson Milling — so named because it was under the umbrella of Winnipeg, Canada agribusiness conglomerate Richardson International — back to Panhandle Milling, the name it first bore when Vega-raised pioneer Harold Dillehay founded it in 1985.
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