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Homeowners say WI Law Favors Big Farms, Leaves them Powerless Against Smells, Pollution
Washtington ComPost ^ | September 28, 2011 | AP

Posted on 09/28/2011 11:14:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: July4
Who was there first—Mr. Adams or the 3,000 cows?

The way the article reads, Adams was there first. The farm keeps expanding, tripling its herd while simultaneously going to court to prevent the local government from testing for contaminants.

21 posted on 09/28/2011 11:45:36 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: chrisser
Yes sir, farmer buys 800 acres in middle of subdivision. LOL Reminds me of the lady that got pissed because the railroad actually ran trains on the track at the back of her yard.
22 posted on 09/28/2011 11:46:00 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Maybe it’s just me, but I rather enjoy the faint whiff of cow manure in the air. If you’ve grown up around farms, it’s a pleasant and familiar smell.

Same with horses. I draw the line at pigs.

When they sprinkle the pastures across the way with liquid cow manure, that’s another matter entirely. But that rather horrible and unnatural smell only lasts for a day or so, and then it’s gone. And they get three or even four harvests from the grass, depending on the weather.


23 posted on 09/28/2011 11:52:40 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Maybe old John can start eating lawyers.....I hear they taste like rat.


24 posted on 09/28/2011 11:54:58 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: chrisser

I guess plans for the airport fell through.


25 posted on 09/28/2011 11:55:07 AM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: org.whodat
Mr. Adams is a farmer. Mr. Larson is a relative newcomer to the region ~ hasn't even Anglicized his surname yet, and you know how that gets.

Probably has to speak through a lawyer due to deficiencies in his English.

(/s) ~ this is about Wisconsin so most of what I said is not exactly a joke.

Now, about this method of his of going into a region with smaller farms that used to be "general farms" and turning it into a monster poop factory! That's SOOOOOOOO North Dakota!!!!!! and right down to the Scanderhoovian name.

I can't believe the idea was that of Br'r Larson ~ has to be an investment group behind it who think of their land in terms of SECTIONS.

26 posted on 09/28/2011 11:55:41 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I really don’t care. There is little appreciation from these newcomers who want the farmers to change to accommdoate THEM and in no way want to give up a thing when they move to a rural area where the farms have been in operation for generations.


27 posted on 09/28/2011 11:55:57 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Liberals want all the benefits from owning property as long as they do not have to pay a dime for it, they expect mama government to give them, for free, unlimited views of nature, the sounds and fresh air smell of nature, all the services of city living, just because they bought a quarter acre lot in the country side and put up an eco dome with solar panels on the roof. They expect long time land owners to shut down farms, end gravel quarrying, stop shooting & hunting and provide them with vistas by not developing the land bought long before the eco-nut liberals invaded the area.


28 posted on 09/28/2011 11:58:51 AM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: muawiyah
Seems Br'r Larson likes to send his manure down the creek and let somebody else handle it.

In my neck of the woods, the DNR would be on your back in a heartbeat.

29 posted on 09/28/2011 11:59:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: laconic
Alas, that's not the source of complaint here. That "town" has about 800 people and is 36 square miles in size.

That's pretty open farm country when it comes to Souvrn' Wisconsin.

The complainant is a farmer. The offender is a poop manufacturer.

30 posted on 09/28/2011 11:59:12 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This story stinks of Bull$h*t to me....


31 posted on 09/28/2011 12:02:52 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Apparently the folks in Wisconsin thought they had a federally designated watershed area. Problem is (if you look at this area on Google Earth) they don't have the rural road density you find in the heart of the cornbelt. Lot of that soil in Wisconsin is of limited use so they raise cows and grow hay and alfalfa ~ or, maybe even trees. The consequence is they can't just go into this guy's core area and do water samples ~ without which they can't prove that he's a poop manufacturer and is probably violating federal and state laws.

At the same time he's been in court to stop the "town" (actually larger than most Midwestern "townships") and he and his goombahs have gone to the legislature for further protections from older established farmers.

If he gets what he wants folks will be building Hog Factories and you just haven't lived until you've been within 15 miles down wind of one of those suckers!

Even Larson is going to be complaining.

32 posted on 09/28/2011 12:06:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

If he is buying additional farm land, the farm was still there first.


33 posted on 09/28/2011 12:06:59 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: muawiyah

Sounds like he would fit right in with the corn ethanol mafia.


34 posted on 09/28/2011 12:10:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

See this horsedoo often, someone moves into neighborhood where a nearby farm has been for years and the newby begins bitchin about the smell.

Because its hard to shut one down on smell, they then start saying water POLLUTION.

Can’t imagine this going very far in DAIRY Wisconsin.


35 posted on 09/28/2011 12:11:52 PM PDT by dusttoyou (paulnutz/bachnutz/palinwishers are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No, he's adopting a practice found further West in the Dakotas.

Tom Daschle sponsored a lot of legislation to make it all possible and in the process disabled most of the smaller dairy farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is one of those areas close enough to urban areas (a mere 100 miles or so) that you can do dairy economically with only 100 cows.

I'd bet Larson is a member of ELCA (they use gay ministers and always take the Liberal position on any issue).

36 posted on 09/28/2011 12:14:08 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Yeah, because the farmers moved in AFTER all those crackerjack box houses were thrown up.

Wait...What? You mean the farmers were there first? And the people who moved in did so knowing that the farmland was there?

Sounds to me like the liberal yuppies want the government to support their stupidity and short sightedness....

Oh yeah. That's what government is best at.

37 posted on 09/28/2011 12:15:45 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: dusttoyou
You sure ought to read the whole thread first. The nearby farmers are concerned with the factory farm guy who moved his operation into their midst and began pumping his poop into THEIR streams and water table.

The people there first are being bullied.

Your boy Preibus and his boy Walker are on the side of the factory farm guy with the irregular disposal method for the many tons of poop he produces each day.

38 posted on 09/28/2011 12:17:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Ah yez, the air along Kentucky Ave. was...um..tasty. The word “smell” just doesn't seem adequate.
39 posted on 09/28/2011 12:17:41 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
"tasty"~ fur shur I'd never thought of that word.

Lilly loved to do that big boil on the weekends when all their employees were SOMEWHERE ELSE!

40 posted on 09/28/2011 12:19:42 PM PDT by muawiyah
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