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PORTLAND — The dairy farmer who bought cows from a Turner farm damaged by fire in 2013 has filed for bankruptcy about a year after moving those cows to 200 acres at the former Union Fair Farm.

On Thursday, Harris Hills Organic Dairy and its owner, Caleb Harris, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which would sell off business and personal assets to settle a portion of an estimated $352,091 in company debt and $676,716 in personal debt.

Harris planned to take over the dairy herd of Caldwell Family Farm in Turner in 2013 and, according to a report at that time, was on his way to Maine at the time of the fire.

Harris had arranged to sell milk to the New Hampshire-based processor Stonyfield before the fire.

Iroquois Valley Farms, an Illinois-based food and farmland company, said in an August 2014 news release that it had struck an arrangement in early 2014 with Harris and Stonyfield to move the herd to the Union farm as part of a “new project to directly source milk from the farmers.”

Iroquois Valley Farms said it had purchased the 200-acre Union Fair Farm in March, the same month Harris had incorporated Harris Hills Organic Dairy in Maine.

Harris’ personal bankruptcy declaration says he will end the lease with Iroquois Valley Farms and the milk contract with Stonyfield.

The company lists $150,683 in debt to creditors, including other vendors and businesses, and $523,233 in secured debt, the bulk of which is to Caldwell Inc. for the herd of 92 cows, 24 heifers, 17 yearlings and 28 calves. The company lists $392,178 in assets.

In his personal bankruptcy, Harris listed an estimated $352,091 in debt, $318,000 of which is in secured claims connected with bank loans and farm equipment. The personal filing includes debts from various other states, including Michigan, where Harris lived before coming to Maine. The personal filing lists $146,500 in assets.

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