Hawaii Dairy Farms, a proposed 699-cow operation on the island of Kauai being funded by eBay billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar’s Honolulu investment firm Ulupono Initiative, could be operational by 2018.
The project’s draft environmental impact statement, which was recently released, said the total development costs of the South Shore dairy farm could total $9.5 million to $11.5 million. Construction could start in 2017.
Jeff Overton, principal planner for Honolulu’s Group 70 International Inc., prepared the 2,607-page draft, which was submitted to the Hawaii State Department of Health for its review.
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