[AT] ATIS at Portland, now 'wireless'

[charlie hill]

Mike,  I don't know if NC has such a law or not.  Generally I think it 
hasn't been much of a problem here.  In that one case it got nipped in the 
bud, as Barney would say, by the state rep. and never made it's way into the 
courts.

I have friend who has a farm of about 700 acres or so just down the road 
from me.  He is surrounded by subdivisions but he won't sell.  He doesn't 
need the money and hates to see the wildlife habitat get taken away. 
Anyway, there is a subdivsion between my house and his farm and some of the 
lots back up to one of his hay fields.  He has been out in the field 
spraying the fields and had folks from the S/D walk right out in his field 
and demand to know what he is spraying as if they have some power to stop 
him.  He generally just lets them have their say and then goes back to his 
work when they leave.  He was telling me about one lady who got particularly 
ugly with him.  I told him he was a better man than I am.  I would have 
gotten on the tractor and started spraying with her standing there.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] ATIS at Portland, now 'wireless'


> Even overbuilt, urban-sprawled, New Jersey has a "right to farm" law
> that has survived all challenges from the yuppies who buy new
> "McMansions" near working farms and don't like the smells/noise.
>
> Mike
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> There is a fairly large hog operation and grain buying station not too 
>> far
>> from me.  Right down the road from it is a "planned community" (fancy 
>> name
>> for a subdivision) full of retirees from cities.  The hog farm was there
>> years before the subdivision was ever thought of but eventually enough
>> idiots moved into the place that they incorporated it into a town.  Then
>> they set out to do a extra-territorial jurisdicion on the hog farm with 
>> the
>> intent of shutting it down.  Well the guy that was our State 
>> Representative
>> at the time got word of it.  He contacted the subdivision turned town and
>> told them if they persisted in trying to shut down the hog farm that he
>> would pass legislation to remove their town charter.  That shut them up!
>>
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