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(KLZA)-- A permit has been denied for a southeast Nebraska chicken farm.
The Tecumseh Chieftan reports the Johnson County Planning and Zoning Commission recently voted unanimously to deny a special building permit for Jim Erickson and his family to construct eight buildings for housing chickens on a farm about two miles west of Sterling.
About 60 people attended the meeting.
Erickson said since there is no longer a market for hog production to sustain his family farm for the next generation, and wanted to operate a chicken farm instead.
Each of the buildings would have housed 25,000 chickens, which would cycle through in about two months time.
Neighbors raised concerns about water pollution, manure and carcass management as well as road conditions.
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