Sometimes I wonder if South Dakotans are so desperate for economic development that they'll sacrifice anything—clean air, clean water, decent roads, decent wages—to get it. And sometimes, some South Dakotans surprise me by drawing the line. Out in Hand County…
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The courts are wrapping up another messy parcel of the dairy empire that serial polluter Rick Millner of Veblen mismanaged into bankruptcy. The United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of South Dakota has received the final trustee's report concerning…
State Agriculture Secretary Advocates Dairy, Despite Questionable Cluelessness About Local Concerns The DENR's Water Management Board met Wednesday, July 13, to discuss, among other things, Water Rights Application No. 7239-3 from Hanson County Dairy. Brookings County dairy entrepreneur Michael Crinion…
New documents from the bankruptcy proceeedings concerning the Veblen East industrial dairy in northeast South Dakota shed light on the machinations Richard Millner and the former owners of Veblen East undertook last fall in their failed attempt to cling to…
Funny how things come together. Floyd Swier's dairy up by Ramona went out of business recently. It was purchased at the beginning of May for $1,505,000 by Lake County Dairy LLC. Don't be fooled by the name: It's not a…
A couple of interesting court documents same across my desk this week concerning the legal aftermath of the bankruptcy sale of the Veblen mega-dairies, which we can all hope Riverview's Fehr brothers are running more cleanly and honestly than dairy…
Apparently cow poop doesn't stink as much as it used to in Grant County. Last Tuesday the Grant County Planning and Zoning Board received from its study group a detailed recommendation for revising the county's regulations for concentrated animal feeding…
It looks as if AgStar Financial Services will wrest both of Veblen, South Dakota's bankrupt mega-dairies away from serial polluter Richard Millner and his fellow investors. Vista Family Dairies, a front group formed by Richard Millner and other Veblen West…