Pig-farm petition going to Tewksbury voters

All I have to say is this. Keep putting more regulations, laws, or what have you on farmers, and soon enough there won't be any left. Then what are we going to do beg other countries to suppy us with food. Get a clue people how long have these farms been around. Did you move next to them? Well you should have been aware of the odors that they create. They are not making any more land for farms as all the building continues so I for one am glad that there are still some local farms left around to feed us. Think on that for a while, and wonder what if there is a food shortage should we have left well enough alone.

I think the farm owner should abide by the laws, if other towns people are required to get a permit before building something, so should the farm owners.

Why would someone buy a house next to a pig farm? All i can say is keep you'
r windows closed.In New Hampshire where smarter anuff not to buy a house next to a pig farm.Also whats funny, wait till you try to sell you'r house.

joey wrote:

Why would someone buy a house next to a pig farm? All i can say is keep you'
r windows closed.In New Hampshire where smarter anuff not to buy a house next to a pig farm.Also whats funny, wait till you try to sell you'r house.

By the looks of your spelling, I can't agree your smart enough.

When the neighbors moved there, the pig farm didn't smell as bad. Since then the farmer has done some stuff on the farm and the smell got a lot worse. If farmer is doing stuff on his property with out the necessary permits, I don't blame his neighbors for complaining.

Can someone in God's name please tell me what the number of pigs on a farm has to do with homeland secutiry?

Wow, you folks from NH DON'T GET IT DO YOU! The smell is so HORRIFIC 3 towns and a highway exit along with schools and businesses are affected by this odor! It has nothing to do with homes being built near this farm! If these farm folks are not abiding by the law, something needs to be done! We, from 3 towns are SICK OF IT! We have supported this farm by buying their pumpkins, attending their festivities! They owe the residents of Tewksbury the RESPECT and common decency to provide a farm that is up to standards. And, DOC, this has nothing to do with "homeland security"! This petition is only for the farming in Tewksbury and the folks in Tewksbury ARE NOT trying to shut the farm down. We all moved to Tewksbury because it was country and we want that "country" feel with farms for our kids. We are sick of breathing in the odor and the spray containing e.coli from the pig manure that is in the air! You farm folks up in NH probably live acres and acres away from your farms! I live a good distance from the farm and have lived here for 19 yrs and never have smelled the odor that I have smelled these past 2 yrs.

Typical whining Yuppie Pukes, they think their #### don't stink. Drive around in their gas guzzeling SUV talking on the cell phone. Buy next to a piggery then wonder where that olid odor is comming from.Duh!

From what I understand home land security prevents the number of animals ANY farm has in the US from being released because they are considered a food source, along with any water sources. I dont know about you, but I dont want my food in jepordy because some stupid website wants to run their mouth!

The farm does nor exactly smell wonderful - but if they sell out what goes in there? More 40 B housing. A mall? Fibnd a way to work with them - not against them or Tewksbury might regret it later.

Laura wrote:

I think the farm owner should abide by the laws, if other towns people are required to get a permit before building something, so should the farm owners.

Ok I can see where you are coming from about a building permit, BUT what gives the towns people the right to change the laws within the town when they know nothing on the topic. I would bet none of these people writing the new artice have any agricultural back ground. It sounds like the farm has passed all there state and federal inspections so just leave them alone!

Laura wrote:

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By the looks of your spelling, I can't agree your smart enough.
When the neighbors moved there, the pig farm didn't smell as bad. Since then the farmer has done some stuff on the farm and the smell got a lot worse. If farmer is doing stuff on his property with out the necessary permits, I don't blame his neighbors for complaining.

ever heard of a typo?

OldYankee wrote:

Typical whining Yuppie Pukes, they think their #### don't stink. Drive around in their gas guzzeling SUV talking on the cell phone. Buy next to a piggery then wonder where that olid odor is comming from.Duh!

Yuppies from Tewksbury? Evidently you know nothing about Tewksbury. Most yuppies don't look to purchase homes in Tewksbury. As far as everyone saying these new houses are mansions is a 3,000 sf colonial a mansion? That's what are built these days for houses. What builder builds a 900 sf ranch house nowadays? none. These people are middle class/upper middle classs hard working people.

Maggie wrote:

The farm does nor exactly smell wonderful - but if they sell out what goes in there? More 40 B housing. A mall? Fibnd a way to work with them - not against them or Tewksbury might regret it later.

I agree, sell out and put in low income housing!

Lucy wrote:

Wow, you folks from NH DON'T GET IT DO YOU! The smell is so HORRIFIC 3 towns and a highway exit along with schools and businesses are affected by this odor! It has nothing to do with homes being built near this farm! If these farm folks are not abiding by the law, something needs to be done! We, from 3 towns are SICK OF IT! We have supported this farm by buying their pumpkins, attending their festivities! They owe the residents of Tewksbury the RESPECT and common decency to provide a farm that is up to standards. And, DOC, this has nothing to do with "homeland security"! This petition is only for the farming in Tewksbury and the folks in Tewksbury ARE NOT trying to shut the farm down. We all moved to Tewksbury because it was country and we want that "country" feel with farms for our kids. We are sick of breathing in the odor and the spray containing e.coli from the pig manure that is in the air! You farm folks up in NH probably live acres and acres away from your farms! I live a good distance from the farm and have lived here for 19 yrs and never have smelled the odor that I have smelled these past 2 yrs.

You state "We all moved to Tewksbury because it was country and we want that counrty feel with farms for our kids." Guess what, along with that 'country feel with farms' comes country odors. By the way farm folks don't live 'acres and acres away' from their farms, they live right there next to their barns and the livestock they tend, working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week trying to eke out a living farming.

I wish the odor would permeate to No. Tewksbury. LOL!
If the odor was back to the more tolerable levels b4 the new facility was built, I think people would back down.
I wonder how the Halloween Hay rides are going? Are they providing gas masks?

SmellyPork wrote:

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Yuppies from Tewksbury? Evidently you know nothing about Tewksbury. Most yuppies don't look to purchase homes in Tewksbury. As far as everyone saying these new houses are mansions is a 3,000 sf colonial a mansion? That's what are built these days for houses. What builder builds a 900 sf ranch house nowadays? none. These people are middle class/upper middle classs hard working people.

are there no middle class or upper middle class yuppies? i didnt realize there was certian criteria that had to be met before being considered a yuppie....a young, ambitious, and well-educated individual who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle - this is the def of a yuppie...i do believe there people who fit that description in tewksbury

OldYankee wrote:

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You state "We all moved to Tewksbury because it was country and we want that counrty feel with farms for our kids." Guess what, along with that 'country feel with farms' comes country odors. By the way farm folks don't live 'acres and acres away' from their farms, they live right there next to their barns and the livestock they tend, working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week trying to eke out a living farming.

I have to give them a lot of credit, who in this day and age does the kind of hard work and puts in the long hours the farmers do? They work for everything that have and it makes me sick to think someone is trying to take that away from them! SUPPORT ALL LOCAL FARMS!

Yes, support local farms.

Most farms are good neighbors. Out of the thousands of farms in Massachusetts we have a problem with one, just one. One farm that has two buildings built without permits, 150 unpermitted cows and according to the EPA a toxic waste dump site on it (google “Wilmington Disposal Area”). This farm’s ridiculous stench has caused havoc for residents in Tewksbury and Wilmington, businesses in Andover, and forces kids to stay inside for recess at the North Intermediate School in North Wilmington.

This farm has shown no willingness to work with neighbors and is quoted in the Globe as saying "get used to it". The farm shows the petting zoo on TV and won’t show the confined pigs.

Krochmal Farm’s operation changed in 2005. They built a "finisher building" for confining hundreds of pigs over a half million gallon tank of their own waste, less than two hundred yards from residents. Next to the pigs are numerous 50-inch fans that blow Hydrogen Sulfide, Ammonia, VOCs, and particulates of hogs’ fecal waste onto our cars, our kids' swing sets and into our homes.

Please be smart enough to separate the good from the bad.

You can support local farms and support Article #1.

What's Article #1 about? I've seen signs around town. What's the connection to this story?

If the the farm is following best practices then it should have no trouble following the rules. What are they afraid of? What other things are going on there that have yet to be discovered? How is oversight by the town a bad thing? Article #1 makes sense.