Category Archives: Agricultural Dust

Dairies and Air Pollution

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Last week, at the invitation of Dr. Ellen Jordan (Extension Dairy Specialist, Dallas), I made a short presentation at the annual Dairy Outreach Program Area (DOPA) workshop in Stephenville.  Dairy producers in the Central Texas (Erath, Comanche, Johnson, Bosque, and Hamilton Counties) and East Texas (Hopkins, Rains, and Wood Counties) DOPAs  are required under their state water-quality permits to obtain a certain number of continuing-education units each year.  Because these CEU programs are a regulatory requirement, they’re usually well attended, and this year’s was no exception:  somewhere around 45… Read More →

Windblown Dust and Landowner Liability

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As the urban-rural interface expands toward the wide, open spaces that Panhandle livestock producers have occupied since the 1800s, and as urban residents seek out those same wide, open spaces for their retreats from the stresses of city living, conflict between livestock producers and their neighbors occurs more and more frequently.  One of the most prominent realms of conflict is nuisance, and we will discuss nuisance claims (odor, dust, noise, etc.) in a future post. Another realm of legal exposure that faces the agricultural landowner has to do… Read More →