IDEM approves Cutler dairy
INDIANA - A controversial, large-scale dairy operation planned for farm property near here has been given a green light by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
27 March 2007
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The Boerman-Carroll Dairy -- a $25 million investment -- will be located on a 140-acre site near the southeast corner of Indiana 75 and County Road 600 South.
"We have the last-minute details to work through. They would like groundbreaking late this spring," said Daryl Smith, executive director of the Carroll County Economic Development Corp.
Not everyone was eager to see construction begin. For some, the news that the dairy received approval from IDEM was devastating.
"We've done everything we could do outside of hiring a lawyer, and then we'd have just wasted our money," said Bob Dyer, 78, a fourth-generation farmer.
He and his wife, Rosemary, still live on the 200-acre farm where he grew up, which is about one-half mile from the future site of the Boerman-Carroll Dairy.
The dairy's owner, Gerrit Arendsen, is planning a confined feeding operation that will produce approximately 25,000 gallons of milk daily from a herd of 4,100 cows.
