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LSP Joins Lawsuit Over Failure To Consider Environmental Impacts of Riverview Mega-Dairy Expansion

If Built, West River Mega-Dairy Would be Minnesota’s Largest

August 3, 2026

MORRIS, Minn. — The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) has joined Food & Water Watch in suing the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) over the state’s recent failure to order an environmental impact statement (EIS) for Riverview’s proposed West River Dairy expansion near Morris. If built, the 18,855-cow facility would be the largest factory farm in… Read More →

Category: News Releases

Tags: clean water • dairy consolidation • dairy crisis • EIS • FarmSTAND • Food & Water Watch • greenhouse gases • MPCA • nitrates • Riverview Dairy • water pollution

Land Line: Meat Giant, Farmland Access, Food Banks, Greenhouse Gases, Immigrants & the Economy, Swampbuster, King Oak

By Brian DeVore (editor)

April 29, 2025

The World’s Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange (4/25/25) Despite a long history of corruption and connections to illegal deforestation, the largest meatpacker in the world has been granted a listing on the New York Stock Exchange by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reports… Read More →

Category: Blog

Tags: beginning farmers • biodiversity • consolidation • food banks • food insecurity • greenhouse gases • immigrants • JBS • land access • meatpackers • prairie strips • silvopasture • wildlife habitat