Literally.
The farmers have been busy the last couple days, spreading manure over their fields before the onset of winter. Most of them have been using liquified manure that is spread on by big tank trucks.
But on my commute this morning, I passed a field that must have had thirty HUGE piles of solid manure awaiting dispersal. The smell was beyond anything I have ever encountered. I thought I would pass out in my car. Ahhh, Wisconsin in autumn!
Just thought I would share.
You just gotta come to Maryland and drive past the Purdue chicken farms in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore…on a nice hot, humid, steamy summer day!
Nothing like it in the world!
:::gags and runs away at the thought:::
Kinsey - if it’s anything like the Turkey farms up in Barron County, Wisconsin (home of “The Turkey Store,” formerly Jerome Foods), you’re right. Worst odor ever! By far.
Obviously, none of you people have ever driven down the New Jersey Turnpike!!! (Although liquid cow shit would be pretty bad in comparison.)
Sure as hell have, Dire Wolf, having lived in NJ for 10 years. That’s a bakery making cinnamon buns compared to a poultry farm in August!
Good ol’ liquid manure. The pride of central PA. Nothing like it to tell you, yup, you’re in farm country <vomiting smiley here>
To all those “environmentalists” in the UK who bemoan the use of “artificial” fertilizers, let them stand in a field freshly covered in liquid cow/pig/chicken faeces.
There’s an apartment complex about a quarter mile from here that performs the annual ritual of fertilizing their lawns with fresh manure just around the middle of August. When the breeze is just right, I can smell it… don’t really know how far it carries.
I used to live right across the street from the complex in question. Needless to say, I didn’t go outside much during the late summer. Sealed inside with the AC.
I can’t believe it’s legal to do this inside the city limits.
Phew.