SPRING CREEK TOWNSHIP – A two-vehicle accident involving a GM Sierra and a Toyota RAV4 was reported in Spring Creek Township on Thursday night, September 22nd. The incident occurred on Spring Creek Road when one vehicle was backing into a driveway and was struck by […]
The moratorium on new concentrated animal feeding operations will last for up to one year, giving the county time to rework its agricultural zoning rules to avoid becoming a feedlot hub.
“I don’t think we want to be the next animal livestock hub in the United States,” Commissioner Barry Nelson said at a county board meeting Tuesday. “Our ordinances are kind of behind. At our next meeting I’d like us to look at a moratorium on CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations).”
The feedlot will be operated by the Swine Vet Center of St. Peter, Minn., which manages about 18,000 sows at five sites in Minnesota and Iowa, said Dr. Laura Bruner, a veterinarian at the Swine Vet Center who spoke to commissioners on Tuesday. “We have clients (who own) from five sows to 100,000 sows,” she said