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Why the Hate for AD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wellytrack" data-source="post: 7217567" data-attributes="member: 13092"><p>No resentment of AD here.</p><p></p><p>However I’m far enough away from any so I’m being careful not to fall into the NIMBY trap, but many who do live beside them resent the smell, the constant traffic, being driven off tiny roads by poorly piloted tractors and land being overdosed with many very heavy applications of waste - often full of undesirable things like plastic particles.</p><p></p><p>That’s before we have even touched upon the more local and quite personal effects on smaller farms of losing 15 - 100 acre blocks of rented land, until they amalgamate into a 1500 - 2000 acre farm with those blocks scattered over a 20+ mile radius from its base.</p><p>The constant traffic and drawing of said materials in, and out certainly does seem to detract somewhat from the ‘Green Credentials’ of the whole affair.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the old long established family livestock farms, farmed by people who’s grandparents have been born, lived, worked and died on the same land that is now farmed as part of this venture cannot compete with the money that has pushed them out.</p><p></p><p>Nor do they carry enough clout to seek help for reinvestment from the bank, let alone access to proper investment avenues like a AD plant has..</p><p></p><p>However, as you say. It’s a free market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wellytrack, post: 7217567, member: 13092"] No resentment of AD here. However I’m far enough away from any so I’m being careful not to fall into the NIMBY trap, but many who do live beside them resent the smell, the constant traffic, being driven off tiny roads by poorly piloted tractors and land being overdosed with many very heavy applications of waste - often full of undesirable things like plastic particles. That’s before we have even touched upon the more local and quite personal effects on smaller farms of losing 15 - 100 acre blocks of rented land, until they amalgamate into a 1500 - 2000 acre farm with those blocks scattered over a 20+ mile radius from its base. The constant traffic and drawing of said materials in, and out certainly does seem to detract somewhat from the ‘Green Credentials’ of the whole affair. Meanwhile the old long established family livestock farms, farmed by people who’s grandparents have been born, lived, worked and died on the same land that is now farmed as part of this venture cannot compete with the money that has pushed them out. Nor do they carry enough clout to seek help for reinvestment from the bank, let alone access to proper investment avenues like a AD plant has.. However, as you say. It’s a free market. [/QUOTE]
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