People from the Bay Area started moving into the Valley and buying homes for that country living experience, then started bringing lawsuits against farmers because of the smells, flies and noise at night apparently not realizing that farms, especially dairy farms, can be rather pungent and are a 24 hour a day operation. It got so bad that both Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties had to enact a Right to Farm ordinance. I'm not joking.
Idiots been doing that to the in-laws Washington state dairy farm for a few years now.
ReplyDeletePersonally I love the smell of dairy cow shit. Beef cattle aint the same. Nothing I like better than to walk into a Dairy Barn and smell the aroma.
ReplyDeleteThere is definitely a difference between fresh manure on a Lancaster County Amish farm and the smell of shit wafting up from a Philadelphia subway entrance.
DeleteThere were dozens of small farms in my small community here in way upstate New York. Now they are gone and we have one huge one . The manure is noticed for miles. Bring back the smaller farms.
ReplyDeleteWorked on a dairy farm back in the early 60's. We took the manure from the cows and spread it on alfalfa fields or fields that were due to be planted. There was never much odor. Went camping in the middle of PA this year down the road from a dairy farm and they had a pit that had to be 75 yards in diameter and unknown how many feet deep that was full of shit. Stank to high heavens when the wind blew towards the campground.
DeleteSo much this. When that one big farm has an "accidental" fire, as has happened so much in the past year, that's 100% of the area's production shut right down.
DeleteNIMBYs on the East Coast, retirees moving from their cosseted urban environment, are doing likewise to poultry farmers.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I love dairy-air.
ReplyDeleteCocksuckers do the same thing after moving next to to airports that were in place and working before their parents were born. Hey assholes that's why the houses were so fucking cheap!
ReplyDeleteI read dumbshits in Portland, Or bought new condos next to a railyard and then sued because of the train noise. Same issue with people there buying homes next to the airport and race track.
ReplyDeleteCityfux be clueless, same shit happens around pig farms.
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Same thing happened at my gun club in Lower Providence Township. We were being harassed by a woman in the new development who said that a bullet came thru her roof. We hired a ballistics expert who proved that the angle was impossible. I went to a new club before I could find out the result of the resulting law suit.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened to my gun club in MO.
DeleteInsurance co made us fence off the rifle range and now its only open a few hrs/week, manned by an RSO, and we can only shoot paper.
Somebody needs to burn those houses down. With the neighbors in them.
When I moved to my house in Appalachia, one of the things I liked was that *every* house around me had a range in the back. So, when I got my house, I set up a pistol range behind mine. Sometimes, Saturday morning sounded like a battleground, with shots being fired from all directions (though not so much now that ammo is expensive).
DeleteThen, a couple of families moved in from blue-state areas. They they started calling the cops every time they heard a gun discharge. The sheriff's deputies would drop by. We'd talk guns a bit, they'd maybe fire a few rounds through a new weapon that someone had bought, and move on.
They stopped dropping by about six months ago. I don't know if the people got tired of calling, or if the sheriff's deputies got tired of coming.
Starker here, these idiots also move next to existing quarries and try to get them closed. I've been told that some of geniuses when complaining about farm smells, ask why the farmers don't get their food from the store.
ReplyDeleteWe've had a rather large fiberglass boat plant for 35yrs & have been fighting a trailer park that moved in a 100yrds away 5yrs ago. We have air scrubbers & sound barriers but it's not enough. They were told we were here when they developed the dump.
ReplyDeleteKauai wanted a dairy farm and a company was in the permit process to build it but the 'greenies' protested and stopped it claiming the farm would pollute the environment. The local folks wanted the dairy but the 'greenie haoles' got their way. Now local families pay $8 a gallon for milk that is flown in from California...
ReplyDeleteNot NATIVE Californians, mind you. We were always too damn tolerant of weirdos from elsewhere. Too laid back, live and let live, mellow, NICE. So, seeing this on vacation here, the selfish, victim mentality, entitled dimwits from everywhere started flooding in... actually, some were SO in love with us they never returned home from vacation.
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Thank you! Born at Good Sam Hospital LA in 1958
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