Old Kentucky horse barn

[f6john]

I drive by these all the time and have lived here long enough to somewhat take them for granted.

[old2soon]

      Been on some roads in Kentucky I can't recall a name or number BUT some of those horse barns seemed rather palatial! Also in Ky and Virginia been by the tobacco curing sheds and sometimes a nice aroma near them. Fresh cut hay or alfalfa is nice in the nostrils too! I M O much rather see those nice lookin horse barns than Any major metro area downtown! Nice picture B T W!  RIDE SAFE.

[f6john]

On the smells, get them while you can. Tobacco appears to be on its way out as a commercially viable product in Kentucky. One grower I know of in western Kentucky who had been raising 350 acres of burly and dark fired cut his planting down to 175 acres for this year. The smaller growers are dropping like flies too. From an economic standpoint it was great while it lasted, from a health standpoint, not so much.

[Jersey mike]

Be careful, here in NJ I’ve seen acres after acres disappear to developers. Some may not realize parts of NJ were really a huge cross of almost everything related to farming. I’ve seen dairies disappear, farms of all types including horse farms and stables. Places I use to love to ride through are all gone and nothing bit traffic lights and rows and rows of homes on top of each other.

[old2soon]

Be careful, here in NJ I’ve seen acres after acres disappear to developers. Some may not realize parts of NJ were really a huge cross of almost everything related to farming. I’ve seen dairies disappear, farms of all types including horse farms and stables. Places I use to love to ride through are all gone and nothing bit traffic lights and rows and rows of homes on top of each other.

     N J being called The Garden State USED to mean something. Places I used to deliver and pickup in California I've seen more that one orchard or corn acreage or some other grain or grape cropland turned into buildings and pavement. Seen that around places I grew up in in Illinois. progress my backside. could we be headed to soylent green? RIDE SAFE.

[f6john]

Tennessee is more in the crosshairs than Kentucky. Our big invasion came 20+ years  ago when the Amish came down from the north buying up every farm they could. Not all bad as they are still farms! But point taken as urban sprawl is reaching into northern Madison county where I live as Fayette County, Lexington is practically built out except for said horse farms which are represented by old family money and a smidgen of Arabs.