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K AR LET.-IKALAN I E FARMS, INC.
P. O BOX 26
• KEENESBURG, COLORADO 80643
KEENESBURG
1-732-4466 August 26, 1973
Honorable Glenn Billings, Chairman
Weld County Commisson
Weld County Court House
Greeley, Colorado 80631
C oacri s i on er Billings:
For some time I have attempted to find the time to travel to Greeley
to sock a meeting concerning a problem which seems to be traveling
in scope throughout not only the County of Weld, but the State of
Colorado as well. Consequently I believe you should be informed as
to what some of the farmers think and write this correspondance.
As you might know, we have for almost two years been trying to build
'a milking facility here in the Keenesburg area. It is our hope to
move into the building with two=�h`uridr`ed—and fifty (250) milking cows
and at the prosont time are milking a hundred (100) at a leased
facility. But, it has been discour ing to say the least. In the
present one-hundred and thirty (130) animals we have over one hundred
( 100) registered having been purchased from throughout the State of
Colorado and Kansas. It' s makeup, the herd that is, comes from some
of the finest bloodlines throughout the United States and represents
over a one-hundred thousand ($100,000.00) investment on our part.
Through your assistance and advice we went to the Weld County Planning
Board and received the necessary permit, and received approval from
the Weld County Heal; 11 Department, but we find that these departments
of our County of Weld have no significance or importance since we
cannot build or operate without the authority of the Denver City
Health Department or they will not allow us to ship Grand A milk.
Now how can this be?
I don't want a City of Denver Department having such authority here
in Rural Colorado and what code gives them this authority to supercede
the County of Weld? If this be the case then any department of the
City of Denver has the authority to infringe into Weld County on any
terms that they desire. Is this right as well?
In the Denver City Health Department ' s reasoning refers that all the
milk produced in this State of Colorado is marketed in Denver. We
both know that this is false and in the case of our milk I know that
it has been shipped to the Carnation Milk Plant at Johnstown, Colorado
and more has gone to Sintons Dairy and more still to Safeway Stores,
so it becomes false that all milk is marketed in Denver, Colorado.
This department is made up of men without the proper background or
training for the positions to be dictating policy throughout the
State of Color ado. Why should there be one code for a farmer to
follow or be shut off from shipment and right down the road the
HOUSE of DuVIELLE
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KAR LA-KALAN I E FARMS, INc.
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P. 0 BOX 26
KEENESBURG, COLORADO 80643
KEENESBURG
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the socalled infringement is allowed? Why should the requirements
for our milking facility be different than that next door, on the
Western Slope, or anywhere else? Why should representatives be
falsely making statements in order to get people into the Grade A
market and then hitting them with socalled vi&lations that they
openly admitted when allowing the facility to ship Grade A in the
first place?
This gets much deeper and cannot fully be explained fully in a
simple correspondance such as this. What we need is a State of
Colorado Department of Agriculture with it ' s only milk and
cattlemen' s Inspection Section whereby the County facilities could
be utilized fully and with a set standard that would make for a
much more uniform operation statewide. Then our State of Colorado
would join thirty (30) other top flight agriculture states that
have such an operation and department. We could use our own Colorado
State University to train the qualified personnel not only for the
state agency, but give to the various County Commissioners a list of
personnel to choose from so that the departments could be staffed
with uniformity and operational persons.
Such a bill was introduced in the past legislature and did pass the
House, but was pocketed by a Denver Senator who openly stated that
it was going to stay with him in the appropriation Committee since
he felt the man leading the Denver Health Department was the most
qualified man to have such a position. Now just who in hell does
this Senator think he is that he can dictate policy over our County
of Weld and the rest of the State of Colorado?
Commissioner Billings we need your help, to not only investigate this
delimina but to help in obtaining from the Governor his request for
Recall of this legislation for the comming January Session. I plead
for not just myself, but so many other dairy farmers who fear to
inform your office or others on account of being cut off shipment of
milk.
Your courtesy would be sincerely appr ted. Thank you
, �0
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oderick " ick" Elliott
Managing Partner
Karla-K.lanie Farms Inc.
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