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Farmers have good reason to be
a little alarmed over some of the
zoning stories that are making the
rounds these days. More and more
pressure is being applied for
farmers to clean up their
operations and to meet hitherto
unheard of standards. These ef
forts, carried out by citizens’
groups and various levels of
government, are causing formers
to give considerable thought to the
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Talk
Jerry Webb
Delaware Extension
future of agriculture in the ur
banized East.
The time may be at hand for
some farmers to pack up and head
west. It’s a tough decision, but it
may be the only logical one for a
swine producer or other odor
intensive agricultural en
trepreneur who must daily face the
harassment of governmental
sleuths and irate neighbors.
There was a time when farmers
could simply say, “We were here
first. Our agricultural enterprises
have always smelled about like
that, and there's nothing much
anybody can do about it,” But
those days are truly gone. As sad
as it may be, farmers are having to
'comply with standards set by
nonfarro people with little un
derstanding of agriculture.
Existing operations are being
forced to clean up and deodorize,
and fanners are finding it more
and more difficult to obtain the
necessary permits for new
agricultural enterprises that may
provide sight, sound, air, water or
odor pollution.
Examples of these hassles
abound throughout the urban areas
as farmers struggle to modernize
and expand at the same time their
nonfarm neighbors seek to im
prove their own quality of living.
It’s not hard to understand why a
downwind neighbor would object to
a large confinement hog operation
on a piece of land that used to grow
com or perhaps provide a pasture
for a few beef cows. And it’s not
hard to understand why a nonfarm
neighbor wonders about the runoff
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Trench silo landfill
IncacUcide
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2,1983—017
from a feedlot and the quality of
his downriver drinking water.
Farmers are being told they
must build new livestock buildings
many yards from the nearest
neighbor in some cases
unreasonable distances that
cannot be met on existing land
tracts. So without saying it, local
zoning rulings are forcing farmers
out of certain enterprises or at
least are keeping them from ex
panding.
One tale brought to my attention
involved an illegal landfill on a
farm. Further investigation
showed that landfill to be a trench
silo. It’s an inexpensive way to
store a large amount of livestock
roughage and it makes very little
contribution to any kind -of
agricultural pollution. But
technically, it probably does fall
under the bounds of some gover
nmental unit that’s involved with
landfills.
Where will it end
Where will it all end? That’s
anybody’s guess. But it’s a pretty
sure bet that fanning in the urban
fringe is going to become more and
more difficult The rural residents
just keep coming, vacating the
cities and suburbs for life in the
country. They come seeking fresh
air, open space, anda place to keep
a pony. They bring with them
urban standards that are
sometimes completely in
compatible with rural life-styles.
An urban dweller who was raised
with the constant stench of an oil
refinery in his nostrils can get
downright nasty about the oc
casional whiff of hog house essence
that is carried on a gentle summer
breeze. Like it or not, fanners are
going to have to listen to this kind
of a guy becausehe lives in the
neighborhood, he pays taxes, and
he’s involved in the community. He
wants a better place to live, and
the elimination of barnyard odors
is high on his list of community
betterment projects.
The best hope farmers have
right now, it seems to me, is an
intensive educational effort to at
least nuke the nonfarm rural
residents understand why there
are occasional bad odors, and also
it would behoove farmers to do
everything in their power to cut
down on those sorts of problems.
There are plenty of examples of
intensive livestock operations
successfully maintained in close
proximity of nonfarm residents.
They require some extra effort and
some give and take. Meanwhile,
the farmer who ignores this
situation and goes about his
business with the attitude that he
was there first is headed for a
disappointing surprise.
4-H presents
Easter baskets
ALLENTOWN - An Easter
Basket was contributed to the
Allentown Hospital by each
member of the Spurs-N-Burrs 4-H
Club, which held its monthly
meeting on March 11.
Club members presented group
demonstrations on the Lippezaner,
Andalusian, and Trakehner breeds
of horses.
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