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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA company is seeking permission to start a farm with up to 2 million chickens in eastern Indiana.
An application with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management calls for a six-barn confined animal feeding operation
near the Jay County town of Bryant.
Keith Boeckman of Hoosier Pride Farms says plans are to raise egg-laying hens, with between 1.5 million and 2 million birds
at the farm about 40 miles south of Fort Wayne. The company expects to have the farm in operation within a year and have about
35 workers.
Jay County now has 19 chicken farms that are state regulated because they have more than 30,000 birds. State officials say
regulated chicken farms in Indiana average 300,000 birds.
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