Re: O.T. Hog factory

Posted by Greywolf on March 05, 2005 at 05:02:16 from (216.16.76.92):

In Reply to: Re: O.T. Hog factory posted by paul on March 04, 2005 at 13:55:12:

The scrubber systems they are talking about are biological. From what I've read into it it's trees not mechanical.

One of the proposed operations is about 3 miles south of me...the other about 7 miles south of me. They can put them in... I personally have no qualms of them going up. The owners of the proposed operations are farmers (i know the ppl personally)... not mega corps. Not sure if they are contracting with Christenson's or not tho.

I have a 450 (thats just the milking numbers) head dairy 1/2 mile from me... no problems with them at all ordor or otherwise. Neighbor from him has a small hog setup as a supplement to the family operation. Again no problems.

1 mile north are a 4 hog barn set up.. and yes that guy lives on site. That family has about 7 barns going right now. They are a "farm" family. 3 brothers operating the 7 barns plus about 2500 acres. The dairy operation runs about 1000 acres.

As you stated in the other post paul, many on this board don't know how aggressive the state of MN is on new operations going up. Actually it isn't so much the state as the county's. Both of these new operations are in Renville county and the memories of Valtra ( i think that was the name) are still very very fresh in their mind.

If I were still in operation with fat cattle, I'd be bumped out myself. As it is... setup put up with county's blessing 35 yrs ago and listed as state of the art system at the time (many called us mini So St Paul), I have to beg to keep my 12 horses here. And I can hold 1,000 hd of fat beef with roof space for all. The times are a changing that's for sure.

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