Riverview Seeks $4.5M CAFO Bribe for Hamlin CountyUnsurprisingly, the dairy Riverview plans to build on the Governor’s brothers’ land plans to receive subsidies from the Governor:The dairy will need permits from the state Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Hamlin County Board of Adjustment. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development has doled out great churns of assistance for Riverview’s other South Dakota dairy projects. Most recently, the Board of Economic Development approved a $4.4-million grant under the Reinvestment Payment Program last February for Riverview’s Redstone Dairy in Kingsbury County, although Riverview spokesperson Martha Koehl tells me that that money, per the February 8 grant contract, goes to Kingsbury County, not to Riverview, and that Riverview thus did not receive that grant money from GOED. Hamlin County thus appears to be in the chute to receive the next great county-CAFO bribe. $4.5 million would go a long way in Hamlin County: back in September, the Hamlin County Commission approved a provisional FY2024 budget with total appropriations of the general fund of $3,906,941.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2023 05:03 UTC