Pine City, MN | HuskerJ - 5/28/2026 08:46
Way back when I was in high school, like over 35 years ago, a hog farmer was handed paperwork by the county for pollution fines. Seemed they found things like high nitrates in the little creek that runs not too far from his hog barns.
So, he paid a lab to analyze the water before it flowed past his hog barns, and then after it went past. Seemed the pollution was already in the water before it got to his place. The guy found the source of the pollution, went to the county meeting to protest the fine, and brought proof in black and white that the pollutants did not come from his hog barn, but rather from the golf course upstream from it. Funny how he was hit with threats of big fines and even shutting down his hog barns, but when it was found that the pollution came from the golf course the county bigwigs used regularly, nothing more was said about the problem.
Lawns and things like golf courses cause more pollution than crop ground, as well. Often people just apply 'plenty' of fertilizer or herbicide, where crop ground almost always gets label rate.
I’ve never seen dirt brown water running off a golf coarse or a lush green yard before, like I do every single time it rains hard with most farm ground in my neck of the woods. |
When any one questions farmings impact on the enviro..
