Dive Brief:

• The Future Farmers of America group has decided against pursuing its project to build a leadership center and farming laboratory when it discovered Waste Management applied for a permit to extend a nearby landfill site.
• The waste and recycling giant expects to increase the Riverbend landfill in Yamhill County, CA by almost 40 acres.
• The group decided to withdraw plans citing the expense of obtaining access from the highway to the nearby center site.  

Dive Insight:

Don Clements, the chair of Waste Management's Stewardship Committee, told SFGate that the company "thought the FFA project fit well in the overall plan, and would have been an asset for our community." The FFA now expects to develop a different project that includes establishing five farms on almost 60 acres. The food cultivated will be sold to local markets.