Regulators Collecting More Input About Large-Scale Dairy Farming

Regulators collecting more input about large-scale dairy farming

State environmental regulators are offering the public more time to weigh in on a proposed dairy expansion in western Minnesota after receiving hundreds of comments about the planned 19,000-head operation.Riverview Farms, a Stevens County business headquartered near Morris, operates 13 dairies in Minnesota that range in size from 2,800 to more than 8,570 head, with a total of more than 92,000 cows.The company is pitching the expansion as a reaso…

Comment period extended once more on Minnesota's largest proposed dairy

The public comment period for a feedlot permit and on an environmental assessment worksheet for Minnesota's largest proposed dairy has been extended a second time, this time until May 7. Riverview LLP is seeking an individual feedlot permit for West River Dairy. That dairy currently houses 7,855 head of dairy and the company is proposing an expanded farm that would add 11,000 more head, making it the biggest in the state. On top of an extended c…