Wysocki buys land eyed for Saratoga mega-farm

SARATOGA - The company planning to operate a controversial mega-farm in Wood County now owns the land on which that farm would be located.

The Wysocki Family of Companies said Wednesday it has purchased about 7,000 acres of property in the town of Saratoga from a timber company.

Wysocki intends to use that land for Golden Sands Dairy, a proposed farm that would house 4,000 milking cows, 300 heifers and 1,000 calves. The farm, which meets the legal definition of a concentrated animal feeding operation  — or CAFO — would generate approximately 55 million gallons of liquid manure and 25 tons of solid manure every year, state Department of Natural Resources records show.

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Ken Notes: And we still have no good regulations in place to make these environmentally sound...