b"SEED PLANT(L-R) Foremost Co-operative Seed Cleaning Plant workers Reese Hollinsworth, Plant Manager Rod Granberg, and Assistant Plant Manager Jarret Granberg, standing in the plant. PHOTOS: FOREMOST CO-OPERATIVE SEED CLEANING PLANTAll in theJARRET GRANBERG BASICALLY grew up at the Foremost Co-operative Seed Cleaning Plant with his father, Rod Granberg, working as the plant manager. Throughout his youth, Jarret Family would work at the plant during summers off from playing with the junior A hockey team the Brooks Bandits.I would come home and help him in the offseason. We were also running like 20-hour days at that time, so we needed a night shift guy. Id come home and work the night shift, Jarret says in a phone interview.Those summer jobs morphed into a full-time gig as assistant plant manager when he was older, following university and The Foremost Co-operative Seedmoving away from the community for a while. The two Granbergs work side-by-side running the Foremost plant. They Cleaning Plant is run by a father andalso have one other employeeReece Hollingsworth.son team, but the family roots dontThe plant was built in 1973 and has been upgraded and expanded over the decades, run as a family affair in the stop there. community during that time. Pedigreed seed grower Tony Crooymans was one of the original board members who helped get the plant up and running. His son John Crooymans now serves on the board. Its sort of like your own farm. Your father started this thing, kind of passed it on down and you want to maintain it. And as things progress you want the farm to progress. Well, it's like the same with this plant, John explains in a phone interview.Keeping the Plant GoingRod started working at the plant three decades ago as assistant plant manager. He had farmed and worked on a custom spraying operation before getting into the seed cleaning game. 26seed.ab.ca"