LEWISTON, Minn. – The patron of the Daley dairy farm family, Ben Daley, says he’s not done yet. He told the Winona Post he will continue legal challenges against Winona County’s cap on feedlot size despite a setback before the state Supreme Court. Daley repeated his claim that the County Board purposefully put biased people from the Land Stewardship Project on a zoning board to deny his Lewiston operation a permit to quadruple its herd by 6,000 animal units. “We caught elected officials red-handed,” he said. The Supreme Court, he said, was setting “terrible precedent.” Daley was unspecific about his next step. His legal battle, going back to 2018, has had legal bills paid to an unknown extent by factory-scale Big Farma organizations. The County Board has defended itself consistently that its feedlot ordinance expresses the will of the people. This has been democracy at work, the Board has argued.
