SC Ohio | brads by laws - 8/8/2026 14:32
Ben . . . you going to ever get around to the farmer who had to have his field sprayed with fungicide. No matter what. The same guy who wouldn't work with his neighbor to find a plan they both could live with. The guy who drove his neighbor to do a foolish act out of frustratin ? No . . . I didn't think so. A person would be lucky to net 20 $ an acre on average with fungicides over the years. But the guy with the goats should just shut up and lose thousands so that farmer didn't give a 100 $ for buffer zone. Or the applictor didn't have to alter his application plan ? We can't all be brilliant like you Ben and call them Karen's. And for that I am thankful. And Wes . . . ah yes he must always take the shortest route to and from a job. And he needs to turn over livestock any darn time he see's fit because to do anything else would cost precious money. But that goat rancher . . . Ef him and anyone like him. They don't count. Most everyone on Ag Talk agrees. Well except me and Bobby McGee. If thats going to be the prevailing attitude then yes . . . frustrated people are going to take matters in their own hands. Been that way forever. And since the tecnology exists to spray fungicide without ever crossing people like the goat farmers boundry line just maybe its time to recind those exlusions of airspace that crop dusters have been given. Seem like that privilege is just to much for them to handle. And just so you know people do have some protection rights from the harassment of their livestock from a custom applicator just so some dipsheet row cropper who thinks his sheet don't stick can demand his crop get sprayed at any cost to his neighbors. I miss the days neighbors try to be good neighbors. Well I'm lucky. Mine pretty much do.
Myself and all of the guys I know honestly do try to create the least amount of disturbance possible…we’ll even pull the prop back a bit and take a bit of performance loss to keep it a little quieter around livestock. Definitely not going to do circles around a corral trying to stir up the herd….we’re going to pull up sharper and come in higher and try our best to not upset people or animals WHILE still trying to be as efficient as possible. And obviously if we look down and see livestock spooked or running every which way, we will try to modify our pattern and keep them calm but honestly, 9 times out of 10 a horse or cow will look up at the plane the first time it goes over and just keep on eating after that. I nor any of my buddies think we own the sky and can do whatever we want with no regard for the general public. I know of a horse farm near me that doesn’t like me flying over their pens and I try not to but they also don’t call and yell if I have to occasionally if that’s how the field plan works out best. I wish there were more two seat ag planes and more people had a chance to ride along for a load and get a first hand view of what’s all going on. |
Crop duster takes fire
