The Spink County Planning and Zoning Commission turned down Arrow Farms’ application for a big confined animal feeding operation permit yesterday:
A permit for a new hog operation near Doland was denied by county officials following a public hearing Tuesday morning, according to Spink County Planning and Zoning Director Jamie Wagner-Lutter.
…The permit was for a new hog operation with as many as 7,728 head and located north of Doland at the intersection of state Highway 37 and 166th Street [staff, “CAFO Permit for Hog Operation in Spink County Denied,” Aberdeen American News, 2018.04.10].
Dang: Spink County turns down the Deep Borehole Field Test, and now they turn down a CAFO? Must be an outbreak of hippies down there! Looks like nothing happens in Lana’s backyard.
Arrow Farms LLC is incorporated in Brandon, South Dakota. Its organizer is Sean Richard Simpson; its manager is Barry Richard Kerkaert. There’s also an Arrow Farms RE LLC that lists Lora Hopp-Hansen as its organizer. Arrow Farms lists its address as the Brandon Realty office at 324 South Splitrock Boulevard in Brandon.
Quick, call G Mark and get him on the case.This will not stand!
Choose the middle option….a Deep Borehole Feeding Operation will stand a better chance ;^).
Sometimes it isn’t about left or right. In fact that’s how I liked to approach issues in South Dakota. It’s about what people think is right or wrong for their local area. Sometimes that approach works against your own personal ideology, but you have to respect what folks will put up with and what they won’t in their own neighborhood.
Hmmm….we like pork, but we don’t like the waste it produces or how it is produced. We don’t mind the waste or the manner of production as much if it is done elsewhere.
The requisite costs of reducing or managing the wastes better mean the pork would likely not be as cheap any more.
But stopping the wastes altogether means no more pork (or at least no more access to reasonably-priced pork when we want it).
Where have I heard this before?
Maybe if schools could be more pro active like the School of Mines in Rapid City, you question could be answered Doc. http://www.wandtv.com/story/37808376/turning-garbage-to-gas-a-portable-reactor-holds-promise-for-energy-generation-from-waste
This has so much potential on turning waste into energy with a simple approach. Man, there are some great ideas out there that look to the future rather than the past.
Yes, you could power operations and then some. The primary issue tends to be crud deposited on pipes, fixtures, etc. that ultimately eat up efficiencies, particularly if gases are not pure methane.
You almost need another facility nearby to extract additional value from what we often mistakenly refer to as waste (including energy). Then there would be less material to deal with at the end of the life cycle.
School of Mines came up with this solution to a problem. When this happens, others can be looked at to solve the other issues and so on. Orville and Wilbur flew for seconds and then passed the baton to others.
Build cafos right on the edge of Sioux Falls and Rapid and Pierre. Think how much closer to markets they’d be and think of the savings in transportation costs. They could use city water and sewer systems, too.
Looks like the prototype takes more of a biological approach to breakdown items and generate gases. What else they generate besides methane, the volume of material to be processed, and the time necessary to complete the processing will be the challenges.
One step at a time however. Wastewater from a microbrewery is not the same as wastes from a CAFO. But we’ll take any progress we can get.
but you have to respect what folks will put up with and what they won’t in their own neighborhood.
Farm Bureau and state pols took local control away from locals in iowa, so they get what someone else says they are willing to put up with.
mfi, that is a damn good idea about building CAFO’s using water and sewer systems from Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre and wherever else they can be used in municipalities. You are correct with transportation and for workers as well. The municipalities can just build around them as they expand. The more the public is made aware of the benefits of having a CAFO in your municipality, the more they can see if it is really right for anyplace. I am thinking District 13 as a start up, District 30 looks like it would drain well as would District 13. That would save even more energy for the pumping into sewer lines. Brilliant sir, brilliant.
Exactly doc. Ya gotta start someplace and then improve. My first computer was from Radio Shack and used a floppy disk, 5.25 I believe. Then I got a double floopy and then onto the smaller disks and then and then. Here I am using the internets tubes. I think this deal out of the School of Mines has yuuuuge potential.
Regarding hog confinement though, the money is in specialty lines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/a-spanish-delicacy-grazes-in-texas These are free grazers
Mike,
I would like to believe there is a way to get the pork to the people while reducing waste issues (smell, volume, clean water, etc.).
But it would cost more, and right now nobody wants to pay more. If you go down that road, you have to extract as much value as you can to make it worthwhile.
I’m partial to Black Forest ham, just not the kind made from Gummi Bears. Specialty hams cost as much as a new truck.
Mmmm. Pig meat. I say we should just import all our pig meat from Iowa, where Mr. mike lives. I’m OK with paying a bit more for my pig meat. It already smells horrid over down there, so leave the smell there and bring the bacon here.
Robert, I think I’ll try your suggestion, a Deep Borehole Feeding Operation. Wastes should be manageable. When they get near the top of the hole, fill the rest of it in with dirt and bore a new hole. Brilliant!
It was neighbors
Vs neighbors thing and location of neighboring farms
Only problem is that it would have to be a pretty big borehole.
Or maybe we should call it the boar-hole?
I like the way your mind works Robert. 😊