The developers offered the lifelong farmer $60,000 an acre for the land, meaning the total for the whole 261 acres was more $15 million – a life-changing amount of money.
But despite the enormous amount of money that was being offered to him, Raudabaugh said no.
The farmer opened up about why he turned down the multi-million dollar offer on the farm from the developers.”It was my life,” he said. “I told [the data center developers] no, I was not interested in destroying my farms.”
He went on to explain that he was less interested in the ‘economic’ side of things, saying: “That was really the bottom line. It wasn’t so much the economic end of it. I just didn’t want to see these two farms destroyed.”
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