On The Buffalo River/pig Farm......

[Jack Jones]

FIgured I'd post this link to a NYT aricle about it, for those who are interested.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/2500-pigs-join-debate-over-farms-vs-scenery.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us

[Quillback]

Thanks for posting that link.

[Old plug]

I know that it can be done cleanly. It depends on how they use their waste. I buy bulk compost from a turkey operation they are called Cen. Mo Poultry Producer. It is composed of several barns like those in the picture. The barns have concrete floor and are strickly enviormental controlled ares. What they do is spread the mash first and set up the feeding and watering systems. Then them bring in many thousands of turkey or whatever chicks. By force feeding etc they have them grown in 6 months and sent to market. Then in a big bobcat scoops up all the waste and mash up and loads it onto big dump trucks. It is then hauled over to the side bussiness they own called early bird compost. They have a barrel composter over there that is 10 ft in dia and about 60 ft long. Its driven buy a big chain and turns one revolulion every 18 minutes. It sets at a slight angle and as the the waste passes through all seeds are killed by the temperature generated by the composting waste. And it is hot. There are steam-stacks on it. When it comes out the other end it is stored in long deep bins. All this is done inside a building about the same size as a turkey barn on concrete floors and bins. They ship this stuff all over the area. The bagged stuff is carried by many places nation wide. Almost nothing is on the ground or in piles out in the open.