--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 9/22/05 2:57 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > from today's Fairfield Ledger
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/79y7u
> > " A site in Batavia has been selected for a 5,900 sow operation
to be
> > developed by Rebuh Feeders. That case is currently in mediation
> > between the developer and 25 families who live near the proposed
site.
> > Mediation is required under Iowa law as prerequisite for
bringing a
> > nuisance law suit."
> >
> > ***
> >
> > looks like if you are only going to have 1200 hogs in one place,
you
> > don't need any permission to do so, but if you want more than
1200 in
> > one place, you need to go through mediation, which may or may
not be
> > satisfactory to people wanting to limit hog lot operations --
Jeff Co
> > could see many 1200-hog operations, way more than the 30 going
now,
> > and there is nothing under current state law that anybody can do
about
> > it, if farmers break up their operations into 1200-hog lots at
> > separated sites, which could mean a real stinky future for
JeffCo even
> > if we don't have the huge many-thousands hog lots that other Iowa
> > counties have
>
> That's right. <1200 hogs = basically no red tape
> 1200-2400 hogs = very minor red tape
> >2400 hogs = it gets trickier
>
> So for the most part they're putting in a lot of small ones rather
than
> trying to do the big ones. But that's just as bad once there are
enough of
> them.
************
Ebbsolutely. That farmer quoted in the Sept 19th Ledger said that:
"Hog farmer Robert Deutsch says neighbors have nothing to fear about
a 1,200-head hog operation he is building near Pleasant Plain Road
about six miles north of Fairfield city limits.
Deutsch expects to complete building the farrow-to-finishing
operation in the same spot where he had a wean-to-finish operation
since 1980.
Deutsch holds some 500 acres of land, most of it localized
around his home on 145th Street. In earlier statements reportedly
made by Deutsch to neighbors, he suggested he has as many as 20 hog
finishing facilities planned over the next 10 years."
So 20 lots x 1200 hogs= 24,000 hogs, and that is just one farmer.
Any land not within Fairfield or Vedic City limits (or Pleasant
Plain, etc.) could have one of these hog lots without any legal
process necessary, and at least some of those Vedic City houses are
at risk in the near future of being next to several hog lots in
unincorporated county land, which would make all the Vastu in the
world kind of irrelevant.
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