Ag Director: We're Really Sorry, Sorta

Some of you may remember that a few months ago the Blackford County commissioners rejected a mega dairy, much to the ire of the state's Agriculture Director Andrew Miller. Well now that the dust has mostly settled he made his way up to Hartford City to apologize, in a way.

"Our intent was pure, our method was flawed" said Miller.

Well sure, you intent was to bully the commissioners into doing what you wanted. Your method was flawed in that it's not a good idea to try and bully county commissioners, they generally don't take that well.

I think the Ag Director's intent is a really good thing to question here, what was his intent? A 2000 head dairy is only going to create a few low paying jobs, not the sort of jobs Indiana should be focused on creating. And the impact that such a dairy would have on the prices other family farms would be able to get would be destructive to say the least. So what was the Ag Director's intent? To help out another out of state corporation in the "Buy Indiana" program? Or is a stranger, just a donor you haven't steamrolled local official for yet?