With the comprehensive lost of personal privacy, how uneasy does one become before refusing to post?

My rental is adjacent to a tract in constant aggressive cultivation and the farmers, who have agronomy degrees, prolly employ the resources they learned at university as well as standard county farming procedures.

What happens when a complaint registers the farmers are clearing the fields with a herbicide such as the standard one marketed in agri suppliers inventory?

I mean it's readily apparent to the naked eye this is a highly productive field where earnings are Dun & Bradstreet three crops annually.

What?

There once was a post so queer.

It meandered along 'bout a year.

It seemed crazy at first.

But then it got worse.

Live,

Was this the metaphor?

Reminds me of my high school Literature class when we had to write and essay on the opening line of Hamlet "Who's there?"

The opposite of Captain Obvious !

Live not on evil, for some interesting viewing, watch youtube videos with Gabe Brown, or Dr Allan Savory on regenerative farming. Oh, there's a guy in Georgia, name escapes me now, but I think the farm name has something to do with Oaks who has excellent videos about his regenerative ag journey. He has the fancy degree in agronomy, but was seeing his land continue to deteriorate. Made the switch to regenerative ag, and business is booming, the land is restoring.

Okay - I will try a bite at this apple.

Many of rentals are in rural areas. Annually the farmer next door fertilizes the ground and it creates quite the smell for a good 7 to 10 days. Do I know what the chemical make of this thing is? Nope. Would I want to know? NOPE.

I do remember a house located next to the largest dairy farm in county went up for auction about four years ago. Where I love a bargain even more than most, I just couldn't see it in me to even bid on the place with over 8,000 head on three sides of the place. The place went for about 40% of what it should have. Semi trucks loaded of manure on a dirt road occur multiple times daily.

You are wasting your time to file complaints. What the farmers are doing is legal and when you buy a property right next to the farm, you get to live with farming.

Ray, live not on evil is talking about cash crop and herbicides, not a feedlot. Regenerative farming cures both of those ills though. ( no tillage, no herbicide pesticide fungicide, rotational multi-species grazing, cover cropping, never leave the soil bare.)

Oh, and Live not on evil, you are planting deep-rootednative plants on your rental properties, yes?

Lots of native graminoids have been shown to break down ag chemicals in the soil, and, of course, the deep roots hold soil, reduce erosion, create pathways for rain to percolate deep, deep into the soil, as well as reducing impact of a heavy rain on the soil by catching, slowing the rain as it lands on the plants. And, of course, well-sited trees, shrubs cangreatly reduce heating and cooling loads on a building. Shrubs provide best nesting habitats for song birds, and have some of the deepest roots; ninebark, Physocarpus opulifolious is frequently reported as having roots that go 30 feet deep, and recently, I have heard 60 feet. Don’t know about either of those measurements, but , Im sure they go deeper than a basement.)

For low cost, I collect branches of local shrubs, and just poke them in the soil, water frequently the first couple of years, and protect from rabbit and deer browse. Works well on riparian species, those which like to grow along riverbanks, as that is how MaNature spreads them. Branches break during heavy spring floods, flow downriver, get stuck along the banks, water level goes down, and a new shrub was planted.

I dried up a heavily-flooded back yard with willow, viburnum, elderberry, dogwood. Even the neighbor’s very flooded yard doesn’t get as wet. I’m convincing that tenant next door to let me poke some sticks in to replace the invasive honeysuckle, buckthorn, and Norway maple that is in the wet space.

My daughter's place is not in a flood zone but it sure looks like it.

I would consider a willow, but I am afraid of the roots ruining the septic which is old at best.

Zero, unfortunately, a lot of plants that are good at drinking up water are opportunists ( ok, all plants are opportunists) but anyway, those that like lots of water will go after any source they can reach. Having said that, we have silver maples, red maple, and redtwig dogwood very near the end of our 63 year old septic, never a problem. The silver maple was almost over the septic line.

But, any plants with deep roots should help funnel the water down into the soil. So, maybe just try some of the deep rooted native grasses and shrubs. I believe ninebark is native to your area, and, if I recall, it can handle quite a variety of soils, including clay, and tolerates a wide range of moisture levels. Reason I'm pushing native plants so much is our insect population relies on them for raising their babies, which the songbirds rely on for raising their babies. And, the cycle goes on from there. ( we need insects, birds, animals, plants.) One of my favorite grasses is Sporobolous heterolepsis, Prairie drop seed. Its as pretty as any ornamental grass, and reportedly has large fibrous root system.

Thanks for all that info.

I also have no idea what the first post says.

Was an old guy in the county that everyone called Hoggie. He raised pigs. He was a pig as well. Collected junk on his property. Out in the boonies so nobody cared.

Then someone bought property next to his and built a McMansion.

Then more came in and the complaining started.

By the end of it all he spent thousands on lawyers and still lost all his rights. Fined for his junk. Got rid of the pigs because new neighbors complained. It was sad really. Had the opportunity to do a job for one of the complaining neighbors. I turned it down because of that.

From third grade until I moved out we lived next to the largest pig farmer in the county. (not the same guy)

We had to deal with the smell when the winds changed or they were cleaning out the barns. Meh, they were there first.