Pennsylvania farmer Mervin Raudabaugh sold development rights to a land trust for $1.9 million instead
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- A Pennsylvania town is applauding an elderly farmer who refused to sell his land to data center developers
- Mervin Raudabaugh, 86, was reportedly offered over $15 million for his 261-acre farmland
- “I love this land. It’s been my life,” he said of one of his reasons for declining the offer
An elderly Pennsylvania man turned down an offer of more than $15 million to sell his land to data center developers.
In an interview published on Feb. 16, Mervin Raudabaugh, 86, of Cumberland County, shared why he opted out of the $60,000 per acre that developers offered for his 261 acres in an interview with local outlet Fox 43.
“I was not interested in destroying my farms,” Raudabaugh, who has spent roughly 60 years farming in Silver Spring Township, told the news station. “That was the bottom line. It really wasn’t so much the economic end of it. I just didn’t want to see these two farms destroyed.”…