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Yankton County Commission to Consider Five New Hog Barn Permits

Yankton County Commission to Consider Five New Hog Barn Permits

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The Yankton County Commission will consider applications for five new twenty-four hundred head hog barns at its meeting next week.
Commission Chairman Todd Woods says they will consider them as presented….

Woods and incumbents Deb Bodenstedt and Ray Epp were defeated for reelection earlier this month, largely over the issue of confined animal feeding operations.
Woods says the court decision earlier this month upheld county zoning rules…

Woods says he can’t vote no on an application that meets all the rules…

The commission meets next Tuesday, 4PM at the county government center.

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