Does the Environment lose or gain when Traditional Farms are converted to caravan park, golf courses, kennels?

Question

Farmers are being encouraged to diversify. Do these new ventures help the Environment or harm it?

Answer 1

The environment loses unless they use the appropriate plant or landscaping professionals.

Building something these days first involves scraping the ground of everything living and putting up dead absorbent development.

It is shocking to watch developers knock down every tree and then call their project Nature's Conservatory or some other nice sales pitch.

Meteorologists and climate scientists have always assumed the surface of the planet is absorbing the sun's rays. They couldn't see UV impact of this fast moving wavelength that burns us is in effect burning the ground. The temperature we have documented are just short of boiling temperature.

Weather is the result of temperature differences between land and water. Massive dumping of radiated heat changes weather.

Your traditional farm is not supposed to become a heat sink and that is what the conversions bring unless they landscape or use UV resistant coatings or materials.

Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html and see advanced temperature images where you can see UV impact and how cool green areas are.

Answer 2

Look at the big picture, traditional farms use the land by producing crops which helps the environment. The land that all these new ventures are taking place on is prime land what increase the problems with the environment. There is no amount of chemicals that could cause the problems with the environment that black top and cement will cause to build accommodations for what people look for.in the country. There is a story I heard which can and will happen soon if we don't support the farmers. A small city kid with a group of other children from the city went out to visit a farm where the were cows. After looking around the city kid ask the farmer if the brown cow gave brown milk. Keep taking away farm land and the children except in books will know where their farm foods came from. No one should take away the farm land or water ways that will destroy the environment for their profits only.

Answer 3

I'm not sure there is very much difference.

First, caravan park is not a term we use here in the States. I'm guessing it is what we would call an R.V. Park....a place where people go with cars & camping trailers, or the larger bus sized recreational vehicles. Is this correct?

If I've guessed correctly on the term "caravan park," then I'd have to say no, not better than a TRADITIONAL farm.

In my mind traditional farm means one with the livestock still on the farm, and their manure being used to fertilize the crops.

I'd have to say it wouldn't even be better than a modern farm, where livestock and crops have been separated, and chemicals are used.

A caravan park would mean a concentration of people. That would mean a place for their septic tanks would need to be built, so they could be dumped (the loo's on the caravans). Those things are chocked full of nasty chemicals.

People bring garbage, and things like cigarette butts they toss about. It would mean noise, and comotion to disturb what wildlife might live in the area. It would mean more stores would be built, to support, and gather those tourist dollars.

Golf course...not too different from a farm. Tremendous amount of chemicals dumped on those lawns on golf courses. The only difference might be a golf course would be slightly more friendly to some of the smaller wildlife. Songbirds (farmers hate them as they eat some crops), and squirrels would fair better. Farmers do not like either of them. However geese and ducks, unwelcome as they poo, and damage the grass with eating, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs unwelcome as they burrow.

In the long run, not that different for the wildlife that might or might not live there. Of course a golf course is certainly not going to keep rare heritage breeds of livestock...so perhaps worse in the end.

Not to mention some of the land will be paved, or at least deeply graveled to allow cars to park.

Kennel...powerful strong chemicals are often used in kennels. They have to, to keep disease from becoming a problem. Certainly wildlife is going to be driven away by the din of barking dogs. Except rats....rats will actually love it, as they will learn to steal dogfood.

Of course too, there is the whole matter of all the dog poo, which is not that great for the ground, unlike the manure from most farm animals. Dog poo can also transmit disease to humans.

On the whole, I'd have to say these ventures are not better, and maybe slightly worse than farming. Pretty much a wash either way.

The best thing I can see about these ventures is that the land remains open....it does not become covered with cheek-by-jowl houses, nor shopping centers, and gas stations.

If the farmer is not making ends meet by farming, I'd rather see him do one of the above options, than selling out to developers, who will cover the land with roads, and buildings.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

ofcourse it means other places are demolished to grow food
and the food grown from traditional farms is usually better any way
the big seed companies have wiped out thousands of local seeds systimatically in the last 100 years,to replace them with a few genetically engenered ones that are infertile so the farmers ,now corporations,are forced to keep buying seed

traditional farms grew a lot of their own seed
and these species may not have been so pretty but they were more desease resistant and certainly had more taste.

Answer 5

depends what you consider a "Traditional" farm..
a feedlot? or an alfalfa field??

the use of herbicides or pesticides in Golf Courses OR crop production are both bad, however if either one was "Organic" it would be environmentally better than the other..

The environment benefits from fewer animals (of any kind - including human) and more plants - raised naturally...bee farming is probably the only animal we raise that benefits the environment..

I dont suppose a "kennel" would benefit the environment - but a tree farm would...

Answer 6

As increases in productivity of farms due to improved technology allow more food to be produced on less land the excess land that is no longer needed can be used for other things and a lot of it does end up just being returned to nature and even the land that is used for something else is probably helping because that way land elsewhere doesn't need to be cleared to provide land for that new golf course.

Answer 7

Try buying pepper spray or something of the like. And when you come across that vicious dog, and if it attacks your precious Bogey(again), whip it out and spray that freakin' dog right in the eyes! I believe that in most cases dog behavior is not its fault, but it's their previous/present owners faults. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't protect yourself if a dog attacks you and/or your dog. It's better that dog get hurt than you or your innocent dog. Unfortunately, this dogs aggressive disposition might cause it to be put down, because it sounds like a danger to the public. But maybe the poor dog with the awful owner might just get a different home with a good owner that can help it with its aggression and teach it to behave better around other dogs. I had a dog once that bit my friend right in the face(we got him from the pound and food was involved...), anyways, we had the option to give him to a different family, which we did. He ended up with a nice home with a nice big yard he could run around in for the rest of his years. He's dead now, but I think he had a good life. I think it's very important that you report this dog, before you and your dog get seriously injured.

Answer 8

Every thing we do affects the environment, farms use chemicals and let the land grow to heal itself, parks and courses use chemicals and bring in people who drive their cars there full of trash. Six one way half dozen the other. It's not about the environment it's about economy......

Answer 9

i feel golf courses will help the environment, kennels couldn't hurt any, probably better then farming. too many pesticides, and un-natural / non-organic chemical fertilizers with farms now days. caravan / rv parks do bring in the extra smog, and humans being careless with trash, bathroom chemical dumping, and not respecting nature itself. two out of three isn't too bad.

Answer 10

both. it loses traditional farms & gains caravan parks, golf courses & kennels.