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If there was that much poop, there were too many animals left on the land too long.

Of course you are right, and I knew that too.

The problem is that is always what happens when free enterprise meets liberal politicians.

The politicians wanted the field "mowed" in the shortest time at the lowest cost, so they hired someone who trucked in a completely non-sustainable number of goats right after the grass & weeds had achieved their maximum growth. That way, one grazing period of a week or so reduced all of the grass to goat poop.

That way, the politicians look good, the newspaper reporters, whose shoes have never touched anything other than carpet indoors and concrete outdoors, gushed glowing reports, and anyone who wanted to actually used the land was shafted.

The way to sell it is to have somebody go over the thing with a chain harrow when the poop is dry. Go up and down and then back and forth. And then evaluate it in terms of the saving in the cost of fertilizers.

I take it you've farmed some? It's not that I was any good. I quit because I realized I could sit around the house drinking beer and lose less money. But I won't soon forget the problem of explaining farming to people who don't farm. They always have some slick scheme that works fine except for the reality part.