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Ironically Kooiker, we have chatted previously, ~14 years ago to be exact. See below, and dare I say I'm not lying nor have anything to hide as the conspiracies seem to run rampant with some, I'm now finding out naively.
Posted 5/11/2011 18:49 (#1769940 - in reply to #1769696)
Subject: RE: Iowa fence laws~ Kooiker
NE Kooiker,
After building ag fence commercially for 29 years I retired 2 years ago, I have found myself in this same discussion between neighbors way more times than I care to count. About 95% of the time I ended up being a mediator rather than a fence builder and 1 guy was totally upset with me? Anyway, if the Iowa law is outdated as you suggest and the livestock owner should be held liable for ALL fences to contain his livestock including boundary fences with neighbors I would like to pose this question to you. I have cows and want to pasture grass and cornstalks annually on my ground next to you, so in your scenario I am responsible to build all the fences between you and me because you have no cows. So, I build new fences between us and everything is fine..........can you ever put cows/horses up against me then, what about when you sell the farm, can the new owners not have livestock either and how do you ever enforce that? I know I have built fences for clients that soon as they paid for all the fencing, the next door neighbor wouldn't hesitant a second to rent out his stalks to another guy to graze now that there is a fence, that's not right.
Another case that chapped my butt in the Iowa fencing laws is: I have a 160 rod fence the neighbor and I share equally today, no problems. He decides to sell off 3-6 acre house lots that happens to now be your new neighbors, is the livestock farmer now legally sharing fence with the 4-5 (10 rod each) new neighbors or just the one neighbor ( original)? Those cases get really interesting. I see both sides to some extent, livestock neighbor didn't create the 4-5 neighbor problem, why is it his problem to solve, the 4 -5 house lot owners only want to live in country I don't want or need fences for your cows. Or better yet I want chain link , I want board fence, I want split rail, I don't want barb or electric where my kids can touch it etc... Who is right?
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