OTTAWA — The Franklin County Conservation District is honoring a Pomona farm couple and a feedlot operation in southern Franklin County during the district’s annual meeting today. Lloyd and Jackie Robbins are being honored for the soil and water conservation practiced they’ve done ever since they started farming nearly 30 years ago. They own and lease about 1,100 acres. Lloyd Robbins saids it’s important to use a variety of methods, including terraces, water ways, and filter strips; to preserve the soil and protect the water. The Burkdoll Brothers Livestock Company, of rural Lane, is one of the few livestock feeding operations left in eastern Kansas and is being honored for the company’s efforts to handle waste water from the company’s cattle feedlots. That includes a new lagoon with a underground waste distribution system, said Bruce Burkdoll, one of four brothers operating the cattle and swine backgrounding operation. The company has been owned and run by four generations, he said.
Thursday, Jan. 26, 7 a.m.
