Feedlot expansion Bombay Dairy in Kenyon approved
May 16, 2025
The Goodhue County Board of Commissioners held its first May meeting in Kenyon on Tuesday, May 6, with students from Kenyon-Wanamingo High School government classes in attendance.
The Board’s main agenda item was considering a conditional use permit for a feedlot expansion at Bombay Dairy in Kenyon. Bombay Dairy is seeking to construct a new manure storage facility that will store up to 3 million gallons of manure. Goodhue County requires a CUP for any farm that stores over 500,000 gallons of manure.
Bombay Dairy currently has 770 mature dairy cows and 200 dairy heifers for 970 total animal units. Back in 1998 it received a CUP to exceed 500 animal units. The proposed storage facility would be concrete with dimensions of 150 feet by 250 feet. The farm’s current storage is an earthen mound. They would pump out the storage once a year in the fall (rather than the much more current trips they make currently) and then spread the manure as domestic fertilizer on land that is approved for such application.