28 | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2025 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2025 | 29 Following the successful launch of our Safety Mentorship Program in 2024, we expanded to two additional locations in 2025. We now have 20 safety mentors who support new hires through a structured 15-week program, meeting weekly to train and educate key risks, controls, and best practices. The program accelerates onboarding, reinforces safe habits, and strengthens peer-to-peer accountability. At Grain Millers, doing the right thing for our people, our products, and our partners is core to how we operate. We invest in employee health and wellbeing because healthier teams are safer, more engaged, and better able to serve our customers and communities. We advance social sustainability and inclusion by paying fairly, expanding paid time off, and building transparent performance and feedback practices ensuring every employee feels valued and connected to our purpose. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Throughout 2025, we continued leveraging our Axonify online learning platform, adding new modules addressing safety, quality, HR, and operations. As captured in the graph below, these efforts have strengthened knowledge in safety, environmental compliance, food safety, quality, and HR policy and practices—critical areas for operational excellence. STRENGTHENED WELLBEING PARTICIPATION AND AWARENESS Transitioned benefits guide to an online format for easy access by employees and their families and eliminating print needs. In addition, we continued to promote the Grain Millers Workplace Wellbeing program through monthly newsletters and offered alternative paths to earn incentives for employees with different health statuses through BlueCare Advisor. IMPROVED ACCESS TO LEAVE AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT Reinforce childbirth recovery and parental bonding leave (100% wage replacement within policy limits) and increase EAP utilization. EVOLVED THE CULTURE OF FEEDBACK AND PERFORMANCE We launched “Performance with Purpose” ensuring that each employee received a performance review. This promotes feedback culture, so everyone understands how their role and contributions impact the overall company. ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINED THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN Within this, we partnered with CircaWorks who posts our jobs to the state Electronic System Delivery Sites to and give protected veterans the first opportunity to apply to our jobs. This helps Grain Millers take the steps to continue to build a diverse workforce and inclusive culture. In 2026, we will broaden the impact of the Axonify platform by deploying a more robust, position-specific on-the-job training program. This will enhance new employee onboarding, standardize expectations around skills and workflows, and improve time to competency, which, in turn, will have a positive impact on employee safety. OUR 2025 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% 86.7 91.8 Environment 84.7 94.5 Safety 84.4 94.8 Food Safety/ Quality Assurance 84.1 94.9 Human Resources Baseline Current Percent of Correct Answers L E A R N I N G O U T C O M E S IMPACT OF AXONIFY TRAINING G OA L 2 EXPAND OUR SAFETY MENTORSHIP PROGRAM G OA L 3 STRENGTHEN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND DEVELOP A CULTURE OF FEEDBACK AND PERFORMANCE C O M M I T M E N T 3
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