Farmer Threatened By Nuisance Lawsuit Sues Back

[kthompson]

Finally got to the article and the comments and have a couple of questions:
Lets say all comments are 100% correct for my questions.
1) What does it matter where the farmer lives? I live in the largest county east of the Mississippi River and we have many farmers who live here and farm here and also two counties over. We also have some who live outside our county and farm here. We also have those who own a good bit of farm land and do not actively farm at all but either hire managers or rent the land out.
2) What does it matter if he had clean hands or not? What does that mean? In today's world there are active farmers who have "clean" hands also here. They handle very few wrenches, really very little dirt. They do live in climate controlled cabs and run their computer controlled tractors and diggers in as clean environment as my office is.
3) What does it matter whether the owner does any of the work himself or hires all of that out including if he ever sits foot on it or even knows how to drive there?
I always understood Lady Justice was suppose to be blind. Reason I do not mind jury duty.
Funny there I began on Federal Jury Duty, down to State and end on Small Claims Court. Began a the top and worked my way down. kt

 

[jack707]

They had a thing called detters prison

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Read the comments in that article..... sounds like the guy started a 24/7 operation well after the people filing the lawsuit lived there. He doesn't even live in that county. Anywho, always gotta be careful when filing a lawsuit. You loses, you payses.

I don't see that it makes a difference. On my parent's farm we brought in heavy equipment to clear an overgrown fence row. The suburbanites on that property line freaked out, because they felt they lost privacy. Life is tough. That fence row needed to be cleared and the acreage put back into production or we would lose water rights. Farms are a business, not a tourist attraction or somebody else's pretty view.

 

[jack707]

I don't see that it makes a difference. On my parent's farm we brought in heavy equipment to clear an overgrown fence row. The suburbanites on that property line freaked out, because they felt they lost privacy. Life is tough. That fence row needed to be cleared and the acreage put back into production or we would lose water rights. Farms are a business, not a tourist attraction or somebody else's pretty view.

As long as you didn't damage their land who care what they think

 

[MossRoad]

I don't see that it makes a difference. On my parent's farm we brought in heavy equipment to clear an overgrown fence row. The suburbanites on that property line freaked out, because they felt they lost privacy. Life is tough. That fence row needed to be cleared and the acreage put back into production or we would lose water rights. Farms are a business, not a tourist attraction or somebody else's pretty view.

Here's the story in a nutshell...

He started a 24/7 operation. The neighbors and conservation groups felt his operation required a conditional use permit, which limits hours. The court decided the activities at his operation did not require a conditional use permit.

Nowhere in that story did I read that someone was anti-farmer. It sounds like they were concerned about the truck traffic, noise and dust from a 24/7 operation that didn't exist before they were there.

The guy that is running the 24/7 operation doesn't live there, so he isn't affected by the truck traffic, noise and dust that he himself is creating.

 

[TheMan419]

I read the comments and saw where someone says that Suzi lived there first so people were siding with her. Whether she was there first or not, the guy was performing an agricultural operation in an area zoned for agriculture. The real basis of her suit was that the operation didn't conform to the "agricultural" zoning. I guess she learned that there are other operations in agriculture that aren't frolicking new born sheep and blossoming meadows. Good thing her neighbor didn't start a pig farm.

Lol I worked with a guy who wanted to put up lights. He had a horse arena and wanted out door lights so he could ride and train. In the winter here sun can set at 4:30-5:00 p.m. Neighbors objected. He was zoned ag. So we reminded the neighbors that a hog farm was legal and they could not object. Oddly we found a solution for the lights.

 

[joefromga]

Maybe people who don't like the other property owners doing stuff on their own property should buy all the land around them so they won't be affected.

 

[jack707]

Maybe people who don't like the other property owners doing stuff on their own property should buy all the land around them so they won't be affected.

Not everybody has a boat load on money!. In today world.

 

[joefromga]

That's right so you have to compromise.

 

[jack707]

That's right so you have to compromise.

I know what yoursaying - some people don't play well with others