next rant Iowa hog *****

rick-l · 03-15-2008, 03:22 PM

I had to drive between St Louis and Cedar Rapids Thursday and Friday. Does this stuff smell worse in the springtime? Somewhere between the Iowa border and Mt Pleasant IA. it got so bad I got a headache and became slightly nauseous. I had to change my clothes because I thought they smelled like bad BO.

Breathing this full time (as in if you lived there) couldn't be good for you.

Rikao4 · 03-15-2008, 03:41 PM

Sister-inlaw had a really nice place in NC, until the pigfarm came..
cannot sell, or give it away.
Summertime is hell
Rika

M.D. Holloway · 03-15-2008, 08:05 PM

That will change soon - There is an active effort to reduce the smell of these places due to complaints. Iowas produces more hog than anywhere else. They are actually beginning to add something to their feed which is supposed to reduce the solids as well as the smell.

My compnay produces a biogenerator that will generate trillions of a certain type of bateria that eats fat as well as poop and the byproducts is CO2 and water. We normally put them in food planst to redue the clogging of the drains but they have gone into hog lagoons and have worked real well.

My brother-in-law (who is a spitting image of Dale Jr BTW) raises Hogs in Iowa. The smell is terrible in the hog houses - he takes several showers a day and still doesn't get the odor out sometimes. I guess they get used to it.

Anything that smells that bad can't be good for you. I sware that I can taste the hog poop when I eat ham!

Joeaksa · 03-15-2008, 08:25 PM

Fresh country air...

MRM · 03-15-2008, 08:27 PM

You're not imagining things. That skanky smell you sense when you eat ham suggests a low quality of meat that might have been a boar rather than a gilt or a gelded pig. It has something to do with the acids or amonia or something in the pig and pig poop. Better quality ham is made from gilts (female pigs that haven't had piglets) or gelts. I can smell the same thing and it's a tell tale sign. Now go to a farmer's house and eat ham from one of his pigs, selected and butchered at his direction, and the meat is sweet and salty without any ordor.

on2wheels52 · on2wheels52's Garage

We travel that section several times/year, my wife more than me but haven't noticed it. Perhaps a new producer (or that we're both farm raised and have a bit higher tolerence)?
Jim

pavulon · 03-16-2008, 04:43 AM

farmers may be spreading sh-it (fertilizer) at this time of year as well...planting time is not far away and the ground may still be frozen. Once the fields (and gravel roads) turn to mud, pulling those massive tanks can get tough.

Mo_Gearhead · 03-16-2008, 05:25 AM

Choose your poison?

1. Running 70MPH in the country with the aroma of pigs, cows, chickens, horses, new mown hay, wild flowers...etc.

or

2. Crawling along in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 15MPH, inhaling exhaust fumes and hoping some gang-banger doesn't 'cap' you with errant gunfire.

P.S. STAY away from Missouri. This place is Terrible!

rick-l · 03-16-2008, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead

1. Running 70MPH in the country with the aroma of pigs, cows, chickens, horses, new mown hay, wild flowers...etc.

I neglected to mention the 25+ state trooper and sheriffs cars I saw enforcing the 65 MPH speed limit south of Iowa City.

It wasn't just an aroma it was pervasive odor over the entire trip.