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Jury Awards Neighbors for Odors
Published Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 05:04 AM
Premium Standard Farms questions its future investment in the state of Missouri after a jury awarded 15 people 11-million dollars over hog odors at a farm north of Kansas City. Neighbors of the farm said pig odors nauseated them and forced them to stay indoors with the windows shut. Officials for Premium Standard Farms, which owns the Gentry County operation, say they will appeal.

In its statement, Premium Standard Farms said - in light of this decision and in view of the continuing hostile environment toward live hog production, we have serious concerns whether we will ever make any future investments in the state of Missouri. This was the second time the 15 plaintiffs have sued Premium Standard over odors.

Premium Standard has spent 39-million dollars to fix the odors. During the trial, some defense witnesses who live in the area testified that they didn’t notice the odors on most days, and that they were never overpowering.

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