WOW---That smells!!!

big tee · Oct 16, 2016

Neighbor has 2-2600 head hog finishing buildings and what he doesn't have acres for the amount of hog poop I always got and now my son gets. Every large livestock farm has to have a "MANURE MANAGEMENT PLAN" which means you can only put on so much manure/acre. It helps build the soil, but it sure stinks. They have 10 of these rigs running today. Didn't take an hour to do 60 acres. I really like the sign on the first picture.------Tee

tracto-man · Oct 16, 2016

Yep, love the sign, Lol.

Smelled like that a lot this last year with cow farms around here.

WellWorn · Oct 16, 2016

We have an 8 pig finishing operation. They poop in the woods where they keep busy rooting up stuff like scrub brush and poison ivy, and unless I happen to step in a fresh one, I don't notice any smell at all. Must be something to that "power in numbers" thing.

Spudm · Oct 16, 2016

Got a scrub brush wetland on the farm that would make a good habitat for pigs, but I'm sure the environmental people wouldn't allow it....

WellWorn · Oct 16, 2016

Tell'em that pastured hogs are an endangered species and they're doing wetland restoration work. Hog wallows in wetlands make great puddles for habitat diversity for tadpoles and such. No need to ask me how I know.

farmerwithmutt · Oct 16, 2016

The management plans came in with the mega farm's been in on a few meetings . It may seem strange but when you put on the volume that is applied things can get bad in a hurry. In northern Wisconsin they have brown water events where if they spread on frozen ground it can end up in someone well. We have an Amish guy next to us that's fighting he has a cave on the property that is close to some nice streams it would seem to be ok but he is saying that his barn has deep gutters there 6 ft deep 5 ft across and 30 ft long made out of cement block just uphill from this karst feature nice thought if that breaks . I myself have lung problems if I go by someone spreading like that I have to pull over as soon as I can and wait till I'm done coughing. A lot of them are saying that's the way grandpa did it I should to but there's a world of difference . I think to keep on people's good side injection is the way to go. In Wisconsin there talking of putting monitoring devices on . It's a case of people cutting corners and making it harder on the good farmer.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 16, 2016

Have you seen the movie, THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCESS? It was about selling organic fertilizer to farmers. You learned about the history of transporting poo on sailing ships. If they stored it below deck and it got wet, methane gas would be produced. So it had to be Ship it High In Transit, on deck of ship. Now take the letters in Caps and not you know the rest of the story.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 16, 2016

Well Big Tee,
Those green tractors smell all the way to here. HeHe.
Loren

WOW---That smells!!!

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