Urgent: Board to vote on Rob-n-Cin Factory Farm Rezoning-Tell Them No To Rezone!

The Town of Trenton is considering rezoning land from Exclusive Agricultural (EA) to Agricultural Enterprise (AE) to allow Rob-n-Cin Farms to expand as an industrial factory farm (CAFO).

This rezoning would permanently change our community and reduce the Town’s ability to protect residents. Once approved, it cannot be easily reversed.

Important: Rob-n-Cin’s Wisconsin DNR CAFO permit is currently being contested in a legal case by environmental organizations and affected residents.

Why This Matters

• The farm would generate 18 million gallons of liquid manure each year, spread on nearby fields.

• Most homes in the area rely on private wells, which are vulnerable to contamination from nitrates and bacteria.

• Manure spreading and storage threaten Cedar Creek, the Milwaukee River, and the Cedarburg Bog, an internationally recognized wetland.

• The DNR permit allows expansion without requiring groundwater monitoring for neighboring wells.

• Residents already experience odors, air emissions, and increased truck traffic — further expansion would make these impacts worse.

• Rezoning to AE removes meaningful local control and favors industrial agriculture over existing homes and neighborhoods.

• Makes it so small farms cannot exist in our community-the CAFO leases all the land in the area for spreading-3000 acres

• With the 6 million gallon new manure pit the odor will be smelled for miles

• Trucks making our roads dangerous, semi trucks hauling million of gallons of manure, distrupting our quality of life.

Why You Should Attend

The rezoning decision is local. If residents do not speak up, approval could move forward despite unresolved legal challenges and serious risks to water, health, property values, and quality of life.

Take Action

Attend the public hearing and make your voice heard.

Planning Commission Public Hearing (Redo)

Date: Monday, February 9, 2026
Time: 6:45 p.m.
Location: Town of Trenton Town Hall
1071 STH 33 East
West Bend, WI 53095

Town Board Meeting

Date: Monday, February 16, 2026
Meeting notice and details:
https://townoftrenton.wi.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHNoticePC2026.02.09RobNCin-1.pdf

Write letters, emails, call! We need to flood the mailboxes of Town Board Members!

This is a very important step to stopping the Rezone!

Town Board

Mike Lipscomb: chairman@townoftrenton.wi.gov

Tony Thoma: tony.thoma@washcowisco.gov

Barb Davis supervisor.davies@townoftrenton.wi.gov

Planning Commissioners

Scott Schweizer:  anchormenswear@aol.com

Ray Werhand: werhandr@gmail.com

Dennis Kay:  1dooerr@gmail.com

Lee Kidney: leekidney@charter.net

Doug Hein: dougpam6628@att.net

Cindy Komro TownAdmin@townoftrenton.wi.gov

Be Sure to Send a copy to friendsoftrenton.com. WE NEED A COPY TO HOLD THE TOWN ACCOUNTABLE!

For years, residents have made it clear we do not want an industrial-scale factory farm expanding in our community. Despite overwhelming opposition, the Town continues to push rezoning and approvals that favor Big Ag over the people who live here.

It is critical to understand this:
The Conditional Use Permit (CUP) being used by the Town does NOT address resident concerns such as odor, noise, truck traffic, manure spreading, or quality-of-life impacts. Instead, the CUP relies almost entirely on the farm’s WPDES water pollution permit.

That permit is currently being contested by a group of residents and Milwaukee Riverkeeper because it fails to adequately protect groundwater, private wells, Cedar Creek, and the Cedarburg Bog, and because no comprehensive environmental impact analysis was completed. Despite this, the Town is still using the contested permit to justify rezoning and approval.

Residents already experience:
• Over 9 million gallons of liquid manure spread on local fields each year — with plans to grow to 18 million gallons
• Strong sulfur and rotten-egg odors traveling miles
• Thousands of large manure trucks on local roads
• Increased risks to private wells, Cedar Creek, and the Cedarburg Bog

These impacts are already happening — and they will get worse if this expansion is approved.

The WPDES permit is being contested, so why would the Town move forward to create zoning for a factory farm?

https://www.wpr.org/news/cafo-permit-wisconsin-dairy-legal-challenge

https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2025/12/10/environmental-groups-challenge-dnr-permit-for-west-bend-area-cafo/87624206007/

This will take time till it goes to the Administrative Judge for a court trial so why would the Town of Treton allow a rezone and CUP based on a contested permit?