Rangers sniff out odors at big farms

CNN ^ | 10/27/03 | CNN

[arjay]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- There's a new defense against odors that waft from factory farms. It's the Nasal Rangers -- a group of state employees specially trained to sniff out smells and determine which of them are too stinky.

[arjay]

Someone sent me this article. I don't go to CNN, but I thought some might find this interesting.

[Cicero]

I'm getting awfully tired of yuppies who move to houses in farming areas and then start complaining about the smell. The farms were there first.

[spunkets]

" then receives a certificate and Nasal Ranger patch."

Just imagine Barney's excitement at that!

[spunkets]

"yuppies"

Exactly! There's not a stink on the farm that can generate the nausea they can.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does this mean they're done measuring the holes in Swiss cheese?

-PJ

[razorback-bert]

hydrogen sulfide

Three wells ago, I was run off a well site by H-2-S and the rig hands had to work on air lines untill we got it under control. The feedlots workers will know about and control H-2-S long before anyone else has a problem with it.

Anyone building or buying a home downwind of a feedlot, paper mill or any other stinky production plant is missing more than a few cards in their deck.

[4mycountry]

Sounds like that job stinks.

[humblegunner]

That job reeks.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[pointsal]

They train'm by asking the new employees to eat a can of beans

[Eala]

Anyone building or buying a home downwind of a feedlot, paper mill or any other stinky production plant is missing more than a few cards in their deck.

Ha. We could always tell those new to my hometown, because they complained about the smell. And to tell the truth my first two nights I couldn't sleep because of it. But after that I'd only detect it during special weather conditions.

After we moved away Dow cleaned up their emissions, I'm told, leaving the city seal, with smoke and a black sky (it was not like that in reality), out of date:

(Apparently it's been updated since.)

[LasVegasMac]

Bingo.

Same as the clowns that buy close to an airport and then bitch about the noise.

We have a pig farm down the road here. It used to be way "out" there. Not anymore. Housing developments all around now.

And they are a "squealing" about the smell when the wind is just right.

The family that owns the place - RC Farms - must be doing something right, though. Steve Wynn put in a private golf course fairly close to them, then bitched about the smell.

That was several years ago, and they are still there. Amazing, given the fact that both city governments pretty much jump 3 ft in the air and yell, "Sir, Yes, Sir!" when Steve Wynn talks.

I used to get a whiff of the place, when the wind was right, back when I had a job on base. Actually did not mind it. But then again, I was raised in Iowa!!

The yups and liberal judges will win this crap.

Sigh.

Maybe the yups will be happy when meat is $30 a lb. - because it is all imported.

LVM

[OldEagle]

There is a lot going on in this area. There are groups measuring the amount of gas expelled by cattle while other groups catalog the abuses poor old Colonel Sanders commits on defenseless poultry.

They don't just want your guns, they want your meat.
Real men will be eating quiche after all???

[StarfireIV]

No kidding. It's like the liberals who move into more conservative communities after the very policies they adhere to have decimated the places whence they came. Sooner or later, these locusts start destroying these communities with their socialist agendas and move on to another area only to repeat the process.

[razorback-bert]

People in Pine Bluff Arkansas, used to say the big paper mill there, smelled of jobs and money.

[Cicero]

Some of our neighbors rent out their pastures to a dairy farm in the next town, and when it's that time of year the tanker trucks start coming down the road full of liquid cow manure. It sure does smell for a day or two. I kind of like the smell of regular cow manure, which I experienced as a boy, but liquid manure is a whole other kettle of fish. Still, if they can make a little money raising feed corn for the cows, why shouldn't they?

[Maria S]

Amarillo, Texas...once in awhile, when the prevailing southwest wind is juuuuust right, we get the aroma from the huge cattle feeder pens wafting across the southwest part of town. Those feedlots ARE probably 30 miles away, but that southwest wind DOES tend to carry! We just call it the smell of money, and thank the Lord that it's not pigs. If you've never smelled a pig farm...ahh, I'm not even going there!

[LasVegasMac]

I agree.

My Mom sends me the news paper from backhome every so often. There have been several articles about people bitching about the smell from feeder lots.

That just pisses me off. To me, the only legit gripe these dunder heads have would be if someone decides to "start" a feeder lot in their neighborhood.

You knew the business was there. Or you SHOULD HAVE known the business was there. They were there first, you bought in.

Now shut your yap. And be happy!

I look at it this way. The pig farm I mentioned - I've bought many a pig from those folks. Talk about "fresh" meat!. I wish there were more agra business here.

Stupid desert!

LVM LVM

[farmfriend]

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[CedarDave]

Whereabouts is the well located?