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Residents air concerns over odors in Rushmore, MN

March 27, 2015, Worthington MN — It was standing-room only at the recent Nobles County Public Works facility in Worthington, Minn., where a public hearing was conducted on a proposed swine nursery barn within a mile of Rushmore’s city limits.

Nearly all of the comments about bad odor wafting through town weren’t directed at the family farming operation seeking a permit to construct a second barn, but rather at a cattle producer seated on the county’s Planning Commission. READ MORE