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To: coder2
Are people today so dumb that they need a "scratch & sniff cowpie" to know that rural areas have their own particular aroma ???

YES!

The people who move to the country to escape the noise and traffic of the city are just exposing themselves to a new set of things to complain about.

Unfortunately, the farmers usually lose the resulting battles and are eventually forced out of business (mostly due to economics)

2 posted on 12/24/2003 6:45:07 AM PST by Vermonter (if you can keep your head while everyone around you loses theirs, you'll be taller than they are)
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To: Vermonter
Many farmers in the Midwest are getting boatloads of money for selling out to real estate developers.
4 posted on 12/24/2003 6:47:35 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Vermonter
Unfortunately, the farmers usually lose the resulting battles and are eventually forced out of business (mostly due to economics)

Been a big problem here in Colorado. City folk (usually from elsewhere) come in and buy up farmland to develop into rural housing developments. Build 500,000 dollar houses on 5 to 35 acre tracts, sell 'em to other city folk (usually from elsewhere). They new homeowners then begin to complain about the odors, crop dusting, dust, etc. associated with farming, even try to get it stopped by the authorities or pass laws against it. Some counties have had to pass laws protecting the farmers from this.

39 posted on 12/24/2003 7:57:17 AM PST by templar
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