Troubled Oregon Megadairy Lost Valley Farm To Be Shut Down & Sold
October 29, 2018 | 1 min to read
Oregon’s second-largest dairy will be shut down and put up for sale by the end of March 2019, a California bankruptcy trustee for the dairy announced Wednesday.
Lost Valley Farm, which has been cited for hundreds of environmental violations since it opened near Boardman 18 months ago, needs to invest $35 million to $40 million to meet its pollution permit requirements, trustee Randy Sugarman wrote in a status report to the court.
“Going forward, it will be necessary to find a new owner, one capable of obtaining any future permits and funding critical capital improvements,” Sugarman said in a news release issued by a Portland public relations firm. He declined to comment further.
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