HURON – Public hearings for conditional use permit applications for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) for a dairy facility northwest of Wolsey and a swine facility northwest of Yale have been scheduled for June 29.
Beadle County commissioners set a 9 a.m. hearing for the Lazy J Dairy LLC application filed by Russell Jungemann, 38228 203rd St., Wolsey.
The proposal is to build a facility that would house a maximum of 1,900 Holstein milk cows and 150 calves, under 400 pounds. The proposed barn would use the existing manure management system.
Commissioners set an 11 a.m. hearing for the application filed by Liberty Farms RE, LLC of Pipestone, Minn., for a swine facility to be built in Section 21 of Liberty Township northwest of Yale.
The project would house a maximum of 640 head of nursery swine, 960 head of finishing swine and 5,980 head of breeding, gestation and farrowing swine.
The confinement buildings would use covered deep pits to store manure/ wash water. The storage is designed to hold more than 12 months of manure/wash water production.
The CAFO applications are the first ones to be filed since the commission rewrote county zoning ordinances with months of public input.
Meanwhile, commissioners on Tuesday also sold at auction two tax deed properties in Huron and two in Bonilla.          
A mobile home at 2508 Wisconsin Ave. S.W. was sold for $2,500 and a house at 531 Beach Ave. S.E. was sold for $13,400. The two lots in Bonilla sold for a total of $25.

Acting as the board of adjustment, commissioners approved a variance application filed by Dale and Carolyn Getscher, 202 Maple Ave. S.E., Wolsey, to add a master bedroom to the home. Four older buildings will be removed and two new structures will be built on the same spot.
Members of the Wolsey City Council recommended approval of the variance.
In other business, commissioners met with Emergency Management Director Zach Nelson on the Beadle County Local Emergency Operations Plan. He briefed city commissioners on the plan last week.
Nelson also met with the County Commission on the need to replace radios used by a number of department employees to communicate with each other. Commissioners will have up to five years to set aside funds before they will need to buy new radios.
Nelson also shared information about damage caused to trees and farm buildings north and northeast of Huron in the early Sunday morning storm.
About 730 NorthWestern Energy and Dakota Energy customers had power outages.
Commissioners said a deteriorating Quonset building on the west side of Yale that they had voted to condemn was torn down by county highway department workers Tuesday.
The board had declared the building, which once served as the school gym in Yale and later was a shop, to be a public nuisance. The cost of the work will be assessed to the property owner, Jim Schwaiger.