June is dairy month....Wipty do dah day!
It isn't about a well oiled machine mom of 4....It's about da poop - where ta put it, an keepin it outa da water.
Behind the scences.
Glad you had a good time gettin outta da house cuz it was a swell day and all.

I attended the dairy breakfast today and it was my first time being on the Larson Acres farm. I was so impressed. To call it a farm is almost inaccurate. The farm was very clean and the animals appear to healthy. What a well oiled machine. The technology was beyond my belief and somewhat overwhelming. I could not believe how many people were there for this event. I have seen fewer people at the rock county fair. This should be the home of the dairy breakfast every year! Oh and when I was leaving, Tommy Thompson was just arriving and greeted me like I was a friend and we new each other for ever. How cool, he made me feel like I was a celebrity :)

99....
Did I say anything about Larson leaving???
He can conduct a business that does not endanger the health of folks.
To keep making a town fight for their rights to clean water is sick.
Organic Valley and Stoneyfield is all I need.

How nice - a hay wagon tour of cow prison! If we could only get bacteria to secrete milk and stem cells to grow beef and leather(and don't laugh, we likely will!), all this forced detention and the resultant refuse concentration would be unnecessary and cows would be nothing but a fond memory of simpler times.

One day perhaps, cows will have their own state where they can live unfettered and free - under the sun!!! Until then, let's hope Obama does not make the fax pas of referring to WisconSIN's concentrated cow "camps" when honoring the dairy industry somewhere, as he did similarly in Poland! And how appropriate, too, that Our Own Lil' Scotty Walker would stage a visit to such a camp under completed under his regime...All Hail Valker!

tequilashot - try to be objective if you can. Prince...I prefer King if you must. On a serious note, explain why Larsons would not have a right to be there? They've owned the land for a very long time and paid taxes. I do believe they may have to reduce the size of the herd but to leave all together is going beyond the realm of reasonable. I suspect the EPA would have something to say about the creek water if there is a serious problem.

So Larson has a right to be there .... and legally degrade the life and health of others.
Whut a prince.
Here , drink the canteen of water frum the Norweigin Creek.

I'm sure Larsons is well inside of code with regards to waste treatment. With that being said, I was in downtown Evansville this week and the smell was really bad. To be fair the wind was coming from the south at 25Mph. I can see the negative point of view of residents who encounter this problem. I also understand Larsons has been around for decades and has a right to be there also. I believe there should be a limit on herd size when a dairy is that close to city limits.

Tony Ends is a just a wanna be farmer and a tree hugger. I'd be embarrassed to live on his farm. It is disgusting looking. Your never gonna change uneducated non-farmers minds because they think they know it all.

HMMMMMMM......
Has anyone Googled ""THIRSTING FOR
JUSTICE IN AMERICA’S DAIRYLAND""".....by Tony Ends? It was in the Milkweed pulication last January.
I sure wouldn't drink nuthin comin from Larson Acres. It makes me sick just thinking about him ruining his neighbors wells. Even the municiple building has a nitrate disclaimer in the john.
Keep you stinkin hospitality Larson. Go cry to David Crass.

You're funny, Gary!! :)

It comes from the supermarket.
;-)

Environmental impacts of growing Larson Acres.
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http://www.midwestadvocates.org/archive/...
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http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/07/13/gue...
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The 2nd link includes this information from a local farmer...

Larson Acres’ files with the state Department of Natural Resources show a more than 30,000-gallon liquid manure spill from a broken hose clamp near Allen Creek in Rock County, emergency spreading of liquid manure on frozen ground when a massive slurry at that site was overflowing, and evidence of a ditch a game warden discovered running brown into Allen Creek from this slurry.

A team of scientists for the local town documented in Norwegian Creek at Larson Acres’ huge heifer operation 2 miles from my farmstead, the highest levels of nitrate pollution — more than 20 times higher than what the EPA calls unfit to drink — ever recorded in Wisconsin. Dangerous nitrate levels directly attributed to Larson Acres’ application of millions of gallons of liquid manure were also found in the property’s well and two adjacent wells. Phosphorus levels on more than half Larson Acres’ land base — several thousand acres — were five times what they should be. The ground was saturated from fall and spring liquid manure applications.

Larson Acres was directly represented on the task force that drafted a 2004 state law stripping all Wisconsin rural towns and counties of the right to deny permits to industrial-scale livestock facilities

I agree with johnnyreb and someone.
Next time people have a fork in their mouths, think about where the stuff's that's on it came from.

I agree with johnyreb

The stupidity of non agricultural minded people amazes me... Would rather listen to the media than study up on the strict environmental concerns that 99% of our farmers are concerned with and deal with on a daily basis.

Eventually, they will have to hold it in the same place every year.

dal, please be specific about your environmental concerns that are currently occurring at the Larson farm. Specific please about Larson--not what you've heard about "corporate farms".

Don't like farms? Then quit eating!

Larson Acres is not a corporate farm... they have been a family owned farm for 50+ years. If you want more information about there farm just visit their website. I was impressed with their publishing of their waste management procedures on their website.

The technology used at Larson Acres makes them a model farm for large dairy's today. There waste treatment systems do not require agitation, making the smells coming from the farm much less than a typical dairy. Read up on the facts a little bit before bashing a good family name.

In my personal opinion, if you can't stand the smell then plug your nose, but don't bash them because the job that they are doing 365 days a year is what puts the food on your dinner table. Support the FARMERS!

I'm all for family farms, but Larson Acres is a Corporatr Farm. Corporate Farms should be outlawed due to environmental concerns.

I can't stand the smell of this place just driving by, how would I be able to sit and enjoy a meal? No thanks, I'll pass!

Larson's are a "class act" and it is reflected in everything they do. If you can, check out the state-of-the-art manure treatment system that is a model for all larger dairies in the world.