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Corporate Dairy Investors Stay Clear of McPherson County, Kan.
By Tim Unruh, The Salina Journal, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 3--McPHERSON COUNTY, Kan.--As opposition assembled in November against corporate dairies, Fred Raybourn and his fellow corporate dairy investors were marking McPherson County off their map.
The Arkansas City businessman said he's not going to build a $16 million to $18 million dairy that would produce 35 jobs where it's not wanted.
"I'm not going to fight them up there," Raybourn said Thursday. "I'm not a confrontational person."
So milk from 3,500 cows will flow elsewhere.
But that doesn't change the McPherson County commissioners' Nov. 5 approval of a corporate dairy resolution, which would open McPherson County for the establishment of corporate dairies.
The measure is opposed by at least…
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