From Local12.com: MAYSVILLE, Ky. (WKRC) – A Northern Kentucky woman and her mother have declined a $26 million offer to sell part of their farmland, saying they do not want it turned into a data center.
Ida Huddleston and her family own about 1,200 acres of farmland outside Maysville. Last April, an unnamed company approached them about purchasing roughly half the property for a proposed data center.
“Stay and hold and feed a nation,” said Delsia Bare, Huddleston’s daughter. “$26 million doesn’t mean anything.”
Bare said her family’s ties to the land span generations.
What many don’t understand is that for multi-generation farmers, the land is not simply land – it is part of who they are.
“My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family have all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it,” Bare said.
The report notes that land in the area is value at around $6,000 per acre, but the company trying to buy it had offered roughly ten times that amount. Still, the Huddleston family isn’t budging.
“They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” Huddleston declared. “We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water—and that poison. Well, we know we’ve had it.”
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