HALSTAD, Minn. (KFGO) – Officials with Riverview Dairy are reaching out to potential neighbors to talk about a proposed new 25,000 head dairy operation in Traill County, North Dakota.
On Tuesday, Riverview LLP, based in Morris, Minnesota, hosted an ‘open house’ at the old school gym in Halstad, Minnesota, to talk with community members about the proposed dairy operation in neighboring Herberg Township of Traill County – just across the Red River.
Riverview’s Vice President of Operations, Damon Knobloch, was on-hand to answer questions about electricity, water usage, worker housing, manure management, and more.
“Yep, that’s exactly right. Those are the kind of questions – just different components of the project – how it will affect the local community, what’s the net result for local businesses, local neighbors, local farmers, how does that impact them? And then, we just want to be available so that they can ask questions. We can take tours. We can go to other dairy sites, and show them, ‘Okay, here’s how this looks.’ If they’re not available for that, we can answer questions here. So, it’s really a good opportunity for us just to meet people and answer questions and build relationships.”
If folks were not able to attend Tuesday’s open house in Halstad, Knobloch says Riverview officials will still be available to answer questions.
“On the west side of the school here, we’ve actually renovated the old music room and a couple offices. And so, the information boards that we have here today, we’re going to set them up in the old music room, and then there’s three of us that are spending a fair bit of time locally in the community. So they can reach out to us, and we can take them one-on-one, or we can take them over to the Waukon Dairy, that’s relatively close to here. We can do a tour as well. So, yes, anybody that missed today, we’d be happy to have similar information to pass on to them.”
Riverview’s Waukon Dairy, which is located on 160 acres in Waukon Township, eight miles southeast of Gary, Minnesota, began milking in June of 2022.
The main office phone line to get in touch with a Riverview representative is 320-392-5609, or find their website at riverviewllp.com.
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