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Plan of Operation: Property Owners:Timothy&Leah Ziemba Property Address: 1397 Hillside Rd. Cambridge WI,53523 Type of activity proposed: Removal of animal units restriction to allow the Ziembas to raise high quality Registered Holstein dairy calves and heifers. Description of Proposed Use: Timothy and Leah Ziemba would like to use their 9.5 acre farm to raise high quality Registered Holstein dairy calves and heifers. The property already has a well-constructed 84 x 40 ft. barn that has been designed to properly take care of 20—30 dairy calves and heifers. The sole use of the barn will be to care for non-milking dairy animals. The barn has concrete floors made purposefully to handle high quality livestock(i.e.grooved concrete). The barn consists of six(6) pens with a feed area (headlocks),a manure scrape lane, and a bedded pack(bedded with sawdust)that gets cleaned twice daily. At the west end of the barn,the concreted scrape lane continues to a 30 x 25 ft. concrete pad that is enclosed on the North and half of the West side by a 4 ft. high,8 inch thick concrete wall reinforced with substantial rebar which serves as a manure storage area.The East side is enclosed the exterior of the barn. The animals have access to an approximate 4 acre pasture that wraps around the back of the property. The pasture is enclosed on all sides by a new 5 string high tensile wire electric fence. Animals will be allowed on the pasture as weather permits. There is also a 30 x 30 ft. stone pad on the south side of the barn where individual calf hutches are placed with up to six(6)0-3 month old dairy calves. The calves in the calf hutches are bedded with straw and wood shavings and cleaned with a skid steer with manure and bedding placed into the manure storage area. The manure storage area has sufficient space to handle 4-6 months of manure from 25-30 Holstein heifers. Manure will be removed during the fall and spring,and when weather permits during winter and summer with a tractor and manure spreader owned by the Ziembas. The Ziembas have permission from both neighboring landowners to spread manure on their land, including Jim and Ellen Skjolass and Scott and Julie Mickleson,totaling over 200 acres. This acreage is more than sufficient to allow any manure generated by the calves and heifers on the farm to be land applied when weather conditions allow and consistent with crop needs. This is a hobby type of farm and will not have any employees. The animals housed at the facility are show-type heifers that are worked with daily and are calm in nature. Animals will be sold throughout the year at public auctions and privately(mostly to youth exhibitors as project animals for county fairs). The Ziembas have a young family and would like their children to have an opportunity to work with these dairy calves and heifers as project animals, as well as learn the responsibility of caring for animals on a day-to-day basis. Hours of operation: Not applicable,farm will not have open and non-open hours. Number of Employees: None. Anticipated Customers: None. Parking:The farm already has a large paved parking area that is used for feed and/or supply deliveries, but there is no need for public parking. Deliveries: The farm will only need hay and sawdust deliveries about once per month.