2LaneCruzer
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'nuf said.
Living by a chicken farm
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'nuf said.
dave1949
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Cities full of people stink too. :laughing:
Times have changed and so should the way we do things. As other posters related living in a agricultural area means some things come with that; however what's coming has changed too.
As a kid we would have days when the air was pretty pungent, so and so was cleaning out their barn, no biggie. Farmers then usually raised feed grains and animals on maybe a full section of land. What they didn't feed, they sold. They also processed most of their own feeds on the farm. The animals were not concentrated in small areas and the animal waste-to-land area worked out fairly well.
Now those farmers have specialized to a large extent. Some farm thousands of acres of crops, some feed thousands of animals in a small area. When so much has changed in that regard, it makes no sense to apply the same 1950's logic to living in agricultural areas pretending nothing has changed. We need to give space to concentrated animal operations just like we give space to other heavy industrial operations.
Whether one thinks CAFO's are good or not, that's the current reality.
Times have changed and so should the way we do things. As other posters related living in a agricultural area means some things come with that; however what's coming has changed too.
As a kid we would have days when the air was pretty pungent, so and so was cleaning out their barn, no biggie. Farmers then usually raised feed grains and animals on maybe a full section of land. What they didn't feed, they sold. They also processed most of their own feeds on the farm. The animals were not concentrated in small areas and the animal waste-to-land area worked out fairly well.
Now those farmers have specialized to a large extent. Some farm thousands of acres of crops, some feed thousands of animals in a small area. When so much has changed in that regard, it makes no sense to apply the same 1950's logic to living in agricultural areas pretending nothing has changed. We need to give space to concentrated animal operations just like we give space to other heavy industrial operations.
Whether one thinks CAFO's are good or not, that's the current reality.
