Site of dairy megafarm for sale

This is great news!! Just do a google search on Vreba-Hoff. These people do nothing but destroy the environment. Look at all the violations in Michigan and look at all the fines that still have not been paid. I understand the need for farming in Ohio. But these huge feeding operations are not farms. They're pollution machines. The proposed farm on this site would have produced more raw sewage than the entire city of Dayton. Once mishap would have destroyed ground water and both the little and big Darby creeks.

The Ohio State government should buy it with stimulus money and convert it into a park, to send a message to other companies that the environment is more important to our state than a few extra tax dollars from a gross factory farm.

smokey - yeh, that's real profitable for the state - spend more money they don't have to acquire something they can't take care of to FURTHER burden the children of the future. Good thinking. As for Bob, I hope you get what you bellyached for - 5300 acres of housing - little houses made of ticky tacky with lots of kids in each one. You people are all fools.

This is like the casino issue. The farm could be a good thing for the State & the economy, if the right company runs it. However, if the company does not adhere to legal and ethical standards, it ends up being a huge burden to everyone. I haven't researched the company, but if they have the violations that Bob stated, we are better off that the deal fell through.

We sure need the milk. At less than a dollar a gallon at the farm gate it would be a real money maker.

gladys, agree the state doesn't have the money to purchase the land, but just as the state doesn't have extra funds, developers aren't snapping up parcels to build on these days either.

Mega-livestock operations by nature are NOT environmentally healthy unless the owners spend tons of upfront money putting in the waste treatment systems needed to handle the magnitude required. And recovering those upfront costs will take longer because of the added operating cost of the waste treatment system, thereby performing a double whammy on the bottom line.

The right answer, believe it or not, is the farm operation most people think of as "old school", where the farm would be multi-use: raising a mixture of livestock and crops.

Instead of hundreds if not thousands of homes, I'd like to see someone purchase most/all the property and turn it into a multi-use farm.

Maybe if I win the lottery ...:-)

These large dairy farms are what the consumers on a budget want. Why do you think that the wal-marts are so big?

Large dairies are regulated and have plans in plan to handle the nutrients that the cows produce to fertilize the land without expensive chemical fertilizers. The better the farmer manage the manure nutrients the more crops they produce and the lower their costs are to import additional feed for the cows because they work with the soil to get the best returns.

It seems that some people don't understand basic economics. All farmers who want to stay in business will take care of their land and their cows, and the people who work for them. If they don't they will go broke like other inefficient businesses.

In my lifetime I have consumed my share of dairy products, meanwhile even the the most deticated milking folks I ever knew hung up their milking outfits. I have never herd the tale of anyone who went into the milking cow farm business. It's to bad this great venture will never come to frutition.
Im getting tired of the state of OH population declining due to the same werido attitudes of NY and CA.
Im making the payments on school houses bigger than sams mega low wall mart super store!
Take UR lactose intollerance to the shakey ,werido bob & family.

Yea Man !
Dat clears the way for the new 2000 acre, site of spent nuclear waste storage and reclimention service center...THX..milk boy bob.

I would like to say that not everyone in the madison county area that lives close to the Orleton farm was against the diary operation. There are a lot
of people in denial about pollution problems that already exist close by.

I grew up two miles from the farm where the dairy was supposed to be built. I still live here. We sure had a lot of opposition from people who weren't even close or even effected by the proposal. I had mixed view. The jobs and stimulation to local economy, such as it is wouldn't hurt. I'm sure the "industry" in this day and age would have strict pollution requirements.
The thing that cracks me up about any issue like this is everyone needs milk, and eggs etc. As long as the farm is not in my back yard. To be honest the biggest concern I had was smell. Our prevaling wind in Plumwood comes straight across the site. In the fiftys and sixties they had a feed lot just east of the site and man, Fresh country air!
So thankfully the issue is settled. The sign says 25 acre tracts. For Sale! There goes our nice little town. Bet it ends up another cracker box city. Good bye yellow brick road.
Love and Peace Home-boy Hank...

noticed some new televison add about ohio dairy farmers
http://www.drink-milk.com/

Thanks to the Saturday edition of The Madison Press; I have to correct my comment. I miss read sign. It's 6000 acres divided into 25 (appx 240 ac. tracts.), not 25 ac. tracts. Action at 2PM June 30 at Choctaw Lake Lodge. They believe it will attract ivestment client-type buyers as well as local farmers. I can't wait to see the outcome.

hartford3 wrote:

I grew up two miles from the farm where the dairy was supposed to be built. I still live here. We sure had a lot of opposition from people who weren't even close or even effected by the proposal. I had mixed view. The jobs and stimulation to local economy, such as it is wouldn't hurt. I'm sure the "industry" in this day and age would have strict pollution requirements.
The thing that cracks me up about any issue like this is everyone needs milk, and eggs etc. As long as the farm is not in my back yard. To be honest the biggest concern I had was smell. Our prevaling wind in Plumwood comes straight across the site. In the fiftys and sixties they had a feed lot just east of the site and man, Fresh country air!
So thankfully the issue is settled. The sign says 25 acre tracts. For Sale! There goes our nice little town. Bet it ends up another cracker box city. Good bye yellow brick road.
Love and Peace Home-boy Hank...

http://www.madisonpress.com/local.asp...

have you been around the area of dairy farms? the smell is outrageous. you can smell them from a distances and it is not good

we do not need any more housing development or industries. keep the land as farming.

nodairy wrote:

we do not need any more housing development or industries. keep the land as farming.

Yes, the area around here is filling up fast enough. Looks like is gonna be farming.