Dodge County says no to large Costco poultry farm
(WorldNews Business)

Highlighting how contentious the issue of large poultry farms is becoming in some eastern Nebraska counties, Dodge County, where Costco`s new chicken-processing facility is being built, has said no to a proposed large operation there. The Dodge County Board of Supervisors voted 4-2 Wednesday to deny a conditional-use permit for a 10-barn poultry operation near Nickerson, which would have produced chickens for Lincoln Premium Poultry and the Costco plant. The operation as proposed would have housed 475,000 chickens, which would have been the largest such operation approved for Dodge County thus far. The proposal was brought forward by landowners Lee and Pamela Camenzind, whose son Case...