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New chapter opened in MN battle over big feedlots


March 10, 2015  by Star Tribune

March 10, 2015, Morris, MN – The Fehr family thinks big. Members have built their Riverview Farms LLP into the largest single milk producer in Minnesota, with five massive dairy operations that house more than 34,500 cows.

But when they proposed a new $55 million dairy feedlot last year, a panel of citizen regulators balked because of environmental concerns, and now their standoff has rural Minnesota asking: How big is too big? READ MORE

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