Vreba-Hoff Brings Mega-Dairy to Union County
The Pal-Item’s Union County beat reporter, Pam Tharp, reports that Greenmeadow Farms’ VP Tom Caldwell (3861 N Us Highway 27, Liberty, IN) announced at the county commissioners’ meeting that Vreba-Hoff is assisting in the installation of a 2,062 cow CAFO 5 miles north of Liberty on US 27. The facility is to cost $12 million, with an additional $6.5 million invested in the cows and equipment. It all sounds good:
Brian Bergen, agribusiness specialist for the Eastern Indiana Development District, said the development will have a substantial economic impact on the region and the county. Bergen estimated the facility’s regional annual impact at $31.2 million, based on taxes, payroll and per-cow spending of $13,000, which includes feed, medical care, goods and services and milk processing. Union County’s share of those numbers is estimated at about $16 million. The facility will create 20 to 25 new jobs at $10 per hour. It also will create demand for locally produced grain and provide opportunities to produce replacement heifers, Caldwell said.
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The dairy will be run by a German couple, Frank and Baersel Achelpoehler of Bramstedt, under the name “Liberty Dairy, LLC.” The article reports that the diary has yet to submit its permit application to IDEM, but as this is Union County, no local approval is required beyond the building permit. Karen Miller of Vreba-Hoff says that the facility will be “designed” as zero discharge - this has sure worked out for the company before.
The new dairy will be constructed on Tom Caldwell’s old dairy farm, just south of Wayne County:
April 10th, 2008 10:19
[...] including maga-dairy firm Vreba-Hoff which is bringing a dairy to Union County which I talked about Tuesday. MDEQ had an issue with alleged discharges of manure from some Vreba-Hoff dairies (remember, these [...]