Otto Farms, Summit Pork receive Gage County approval for swine operation

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26 Jul 2023


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More than a half-year since being filed, Gage County has approved a permit for a joint project between an Adams farm family and Summit Pork, of Iowa.

The Gage County Board Wednesday voted 5-2 in favor of a special use permit in Hanover Township between Pickrell and Adams, for a 6,250 head swine finishing operation. The vote followed a lengthy debate which added conditions to the permit on tree screening, groundwater monitoring, waste injection and rendering. Farmer Dean Otto will receive manure from the Summit Pork operation to be injected into his fields as fertilizer.

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