There are already lost of hog barns around the area and have been for years. Tosh Farms is local to me and he has lots of contracted barns all over the area. They were always 10+ miles away.
The chicken barns are new. Tyson recently opened up a factory in Humboldt TN which is around 30 miles away and apparently people are now putting in chicken barns to go with all the hog barns that Tosh had subcontracted.
I am looking for property elsewhere now. I actually found an interesting property in an area that I thought would be "safe" from barns. While I was examining the adjacent properties low and behold I see the familiar outline from the satellite view and sure enough, there was a pair of chicken barns right down the road.
Even moving to what I would assume to be a "safe" area that is predominantly hills and woods with almost no flat farmland for nutrient management, there is still a chance.
I think the only thing to do is to buy a big enough piece of ground that I won't be near them, but I am not sure how big a piece of ground that needs to be. It would take 640 to have a square piece of ground that was 1 mile by 1 mile.
If you can't smell them at .25 mile away, I could buy a 640 acres and build a house directly in the middle and have no chance of smelling it no matter if someone buys something right next to my property line.
It is quite frustrating. I HATE living in a subdivision. I really don't like living the the "semi" subdivision that I live in now but both of those prevent this from happening.
First world problems, right?