Frank wrote:
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Nice living next to a farm except when they are working on it. People
move out in the country then complain about the smell of farm animals.
Around here there are many mushroom houses. It's hell for those near
them when they clean out the mushroom house. Some days I can smell the
compost pits where they make compost for them and they are over 5 miles
away.


we lived a few hundred feet from a dairy
farm for 14 years. that did not bother us
except the year he tried to keep pigs then
we (the entire neighborhood) got after him.
a dairy farm smells good if they run the farm
right you won't be disgusted by it.

i wonder what they are composting? in my
experience you can compost almost anything
and not smell it that much.

there are people in this neighborhood who
have pigs. we usually don't notice them too
often and while it isn't particularly a
pleasant smell it's not horrid and unbearable.
nothing i'd ever complain of.

i usually enjoy it here except the times
when they are spraying or plowing on such
windy days. none of it makes sense. the
sprays don't go where they're aimed and the
topsoil blows away. not that they actually
have good topsoil any longer - they've
turned it back to subsoil.


songbird