HEARD ON THE BEAT / Buzz from the Business World

Boswell’s Plan OKd: Cotton titan J.G. Boswell Co. this week won approval from the Kings County Board of Supervisors to sell land intended for five mega-dairies on 7,000 acres between Hanford and Corcoran in Central California.

At capacity, the dairies could house up to 30,000 milking cows.

Pasadena-based Boswell is pitching the properties to dairies in the crowded Chino Valley, east of Los Angeles, where dairy pollution and urban development are forcing farmers to seek other locations.

The plan had stumbled earlier after it was challenged by the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, a small Central Valley watchdog group. The group said it was uncertain what its next step would be, although it did not rule out filing a lawsuit.