ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court decided against hearing the latest attempt by the Daley Farm of Lewiston to force Winona County to allow a mega expansion its dairy herd. Chief Justice Natalie Hudson issued an order announcing the court had declinedto consider a Daley appeal of a lower court decision;. Since 2018 the Daleys have gone repeatedly to different agencies and the courts for an exception to the county ceiling on feedlot sizes. Several agricultural organizations have backed the Daleys financially in what became a showdown between environmental degradation and factory-scale farming.
The sixth generation. Among Daley arguments for a bigger feedlot is financial. After six generations of family ownership, they say their ever-expanding family cannot remain economically viable in the changing and competitive milk-producing industry without a larger herd.