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Farmer proposes indoor shrimp farm and farm market; planning staff says operation can be an agricultural use if not split from larger farm
Summary
A Franzenberg Farms owner pitched an indoor shrimp farm with an on-site farm market and agritourism visits; county planning staff said aquaculture can qualify as agricultural use but warned that splitting the site into a sub-acre parcel would remove farm classification under county rules.
Eric Franzenberg, who operates Franzenberg Farms, presented a proposal to the Benton County Board of Supervisors to build an indoor shrimp aquaculture facility and attached farm market on a parcel at the southeast corner of Highway 30 and V40 (Thirteenth Avenue).
Franzenberg told the board the shrimp would be raised in lined tank systems indoors, using a recirculating system with algae production and filtration; grow-out cycles would be approximately three months, allowing monthly harvests. He said sales channels would include wholesale processors, direct farm sales at a farm market on site, and local farmers markets. The proposed building footprint discussed to the board was approximately…
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