So the MDA hosted two webinars to hear from people specifically about the socioeconomic impacts of large dairies. For this purpose, a large dairy was defined as one of 10,000 head or more. ADVERTISEMENTSome Minnesota Department of Agriculture programs available to Minnesota farmers were shared during the listening session. He said before Riverview, dairies were disappearing and processing along with it. Jason Medhaug lives just a couple miles from a Riverview dairy in South Dakota and said the economic impact would be painful if Riverview was not there.