It seems every time I turn around, someone is complaining about or suing Jack DeCoster, and it’s time for some of us that appreciate him to voice our opinion and let the man know not everyone in town is against him.
He is one of Turner’s original farmers, starting with a little flock of birds and building a large successful business.
Where have most of the farmers gone, me included? Back in the 1980s, when interest rates were over 20 percent and residential construction nearly dead, I was glad to find work at the egg farms, and he was still growing because people still used eggs. It was hard, honest work and got my family through those times. Many of us have worked there at one time or another.
What about the fly problem and what is the solution? I’ve raised pigs and been around barns enough to know you have to stop the reproduction. I remember some stuff that really worked, but then they banned it, toxic I guess. It puzzles me why some laboratory can’t come up with a way to stop flies from reproducing as fast and help us come to grips with this age-old problem.
Nobody likes them, but the same goes for the ticks, black flies and mosquitoes and who can we blame for them? Isn’t it time to look for solutions instead of fussing at the farming operations in town?
Robert Harlow, Turner
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