Posted by JD Seller on December 31, 2018 at 09:30:47 from (208.126.198.213):
In Reply to: Hog confinement stench posted by John in La on December 31, 2018 at 07:36:36:
I would bet that a group called "Water keepers" is involved in this too. Robert F. Kennedy is the leader of this out fit. Liberal Dem rich playboy. Totally anti agriculture outfit. They are using anything they can to stop animal confinement style livestock raising. Actually livestock raising in general. Many of the same supporters as PETA. Here in Iowa they tried to influence the state laws on water run off and manure management. When that did not get the results they wanted they switched to air/smell rules/laws. Really nice when RICH people from 1000 miles away come and mess around in your state. Then run back to the MANSIONS on restricted islands/land. Kennedy has many speeches and interviews stating his anti faming views. He is rich and good looking to lots of women. They flock around him. Our family members at the state universities, says his group is very active on the campuses. They are shaping the views of many non farming background people with a very anti farming view point.
Here in Iowa you have to have all livestock sites registered with the state. Then depending on the number of animals and what type/kind/size there are set back rules for how close then can be to homes, wells, other livestock building, and etc. This is a good thing. I do not want to have someone build a "new" building right next to some homes but I also do not want some houses built right next to a livestock operation either. If you have a lot/building of much size the set back is going to be 2375-2500 feet away. Basically a half mile.
Here is a link to a PDF file that lists the rules regulations: www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/afo/fs_distreq_constrctn.pdf
I have a two 2500 head hog barns North-West of me that are just over 3/4 of a mile away as the crow flies. That is the way the majority of our prevailing winds come from. In the fifteen years we have owned this house, my son the first 12 and us the last three, neither of us have had any odor issues from the barns them selves. When they apply the manure in the fall you can smell it for a day or so after application.
This fight will not follow science in most cases. Lawsuits will be won with ignorant juries that "FEEL" they should be doing something. These suits with Smithfield will just cause the entire operation to move out of SC and possibly the US.
Smithfield has some of the best swine feeding technology and research in the world. The Chinese bought this company mainly for the information it has. The blood lines of its hogs,the building designs, and feeding tech are world leading. This technology can easily be taken to other countries and used. Does anyone here think China can not take this to Mexico or South America and raise hogs???? Heck even Africa.
South Carolina had better watch this closely. I know there was unregulated confinement growth in the 1980s-1990s. A total manure management disaster. Buildings dumping manure down the hill into streams. So the modern history of hog production there is not good. So it is needed to be regulated with common sense and scientific rules/laws. There are millions od dollars of infrastructure tied to the hog industry there. Smithfield does not own much of it. It is mostly independent growers. So if they just say the heck with it and leave SC. The economic fall out will be HUGE. Then take in the jobs lost and the ripple effect on other businesses too.
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