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BOARDMAN â Cody Easterday is still waiting for the Oregon Department of Agriculture to approve his application, submitted in June 2019, for a Confined Animal Feeding Operation near the city of Boardman.
Easterday, a 49-year-old rancher whose family owns a huge agricultural operation in Washington state, proposes to open a mega-dairy that would be the second-largest in Oregon. The Easterday Dairy would have up to 28,300 animals and use more water than most cities in the state.
The future of Easterday Dairy is in doubt, however. On March 31, Cody Easterday pleaded guilty to a âghost cattle scamâ that defrauded Tyson Foods and another company out of more than $244 million by charging for the purchase and feeding of animals that never existed.
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Cows are in a feedlot. Pasco, Wash.-based Easterday Ranches wants to build a nearly 30,000-cow dairy on the former site of Oregon s Lost Valley. Pasco, Wash.-based company wants to build a nearly 30,000-cow dairy on the former site of Lost Valley.
Oregon s departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality have tapped the brakes on Easterday Ranches permit application for a nearly 30,000-cow dairy on the site of the former Lost Valley Farm while legal issues swirling around the applicant are resolved, Farm Progress has confirmed.
The Pasco, Wash.-based farm and its owner, Cody Easterday, face civil and criminal repercussions after the rancher admitted to selling more than 200,000 non-existent head of cattle to Tyson Foods.
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February 19, 2021 5:49 PM Madeleine Hagen
BOARDMAN, Ore. – Easterday Ranches, a company based out of Pasco, faces two lawsuits and bankruptcies.
Their affiliate, Easterday Farms Dairy, LLC, however, wants to bring 28,700 head of cattle to Boardman, Oregon, to open a dairy farm.
In light of the legal battle, the coalition, Stand Up to Factory Farms, has spoken out against the move.
“The Easterday’s bought the facility and the land for $66.7 million with plans to open another 30-thousand cow mega-dairy,” Emma Newton, with the coalition said.
Stand Up to Factory Farms is made up of various local, state and national organizations that are concerned over the impact that “mega-dairies on Oregon’s family farms, communities, environment and animal welfare,” according to their website.