Posted by Fixerupper on February 18, 2013 at 11:12:01 from (100.42.82.30):
In Reply to: Re: Corporate farms? posted by Kevin Tree on February 18, 2013 at 09:57:01:
We haven't seen any new lagoons for maybe 15 years here and we have a bunch of finisher buildings in this county. I'd say maybe 40-50000 fats are fed per year in my township alone. I don't think anyone can build a lagoon. Too many problems with overflow, like you say, and leaks. All of the buildings have a deep pit. How many of these pits leak? I don't know the answer. Manure is knifed in under strict guidelines where the farmer getting the manure has to show grid sampling. The manure is applied using computer generated maps. The smell isn't hardly noticeable but the largest building sites in this area aren't any bigger than 4000 finishing units and they are spread fairly far apart.
We do have a large egg laying outfit four miles from me that has the capacity for 6.5 million layers. The only thing they buy locally is the feed products. This outfit does provide jobs so it's not all bad. Jim
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