Seaboard Foods pitched a plan to the Ford County Commissioners at its July 17 meeting to purchase land northeast of Bucklin to raise as many as 2,500 hogs. Commissioners Ken Snook and Shawn Tasset were present. Both sites would have two buildings hogs. Seaboard representative Jennifer Charno Nelson said the corporation was interested in developing a total of four buildings on two sites in that southeast corner of the county. Snook said he was concerned with the odor and a fact Nelson shared that each hog would need to consume five gallons of water every day. “We have a problem with water here, before my life is over, we will run out of water in Ford County,” Snook said.
Source: Dodge City Daily Globe
