Manure Dumping in Preble 12/22/03

PREBLE STINKS! And here is the reason why. I guess some farmers wanted to give all of us a Christmas present by stinking up the town dumping manure on the snow. Now I could be wrong but I thought they were NOT supposed to dump manure on the snow. I could be wrong but I thought they were supposed to till the manure into the soil within three days of dumping it. I think it was Amanda Barber who told me that but I could be wrong. You can't till frozen ground as far as I know but I'm not a farmer so I could be wrong.

Today I was driving down Rt 11 when I spotted a huge manure tanker coming out of the Currie farm. I turned around and went down 11 about 1/2 mile past Preble Road and there on the left were two guys from the Currie farm dumping manure on the field. Those are the pictures labeled "CurrieDumpRt11" 1 through 7. Then I drove over Preble road to 281 south. Just a bit past town there was more evidence of manure dumping on the right hand side of the road. Those pictures are labeled "281lookingeast" 1 through 5. I named the pictures wrong, they should say west not east. I drove further down 281 and took a sharp right onto Steger Road and came back towards town. I took the pictures of the same field from Steger road and those are labeled "StegerRdLookingEast" 1 through 5. I don't know who dumped manure in this field.

If you wanted to know why the town stinks and perhaps why the nitrates are high this could be the reason. But, I'm no expert so I could be wrong. And as these fields are south of Preble they probably aren't the reason for nitrate problems in the town proper. But I could be wrong.

See the pictures here.