No Decision For Now On Proposed Feedlot

Kevin Gribble

KMOT-TV

The Morton County Commission is delaying a decision on whether to allow a controversial feedlot to be built less than ten miles from Mandan. The feedlot`s owner says it would be good for the county. Dozens of people living nearby disagree. If it eventually gets built, the feedlot would hold 4,000 head of cattle at first, then eventually 8,000. But not if the people of Crown Butte have anything to say about it.

It`s not often that a Morton County Commission meeting is this packed. But the people near the proposed feedlot at Crown Butte are adamant that it go some place else.

"I am very scared for my family and health and safety if this feedlot were to be constructed. I have other concerns, as well, like who will maintain the roads the cattle trucks will be using?"

Others are concerned that thousands of animals would create quite a stench for people living just a few miles away.

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