Feedlots stink. If land is worth $1,000 an acre, property values within a three mile radius decrease by $4.7 million.

They’re advertising for land all up and down the I-29 Dairy Corridor to put the big dairies. Tomorrow, they could be next to you.

On a recent public radio broadcast, a spokesman for South Dakota Ag Producer Venture’s dairy division said that the I-29 Dairy Corridor stretches 100 miles from the interstate. (source: South Dakota's "Public Forum" program, September 7, 2004)