1srelluc
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Or is this just a case of "when A-Holes collide"?
In rural western TennesseeāKitzmanās trailers, tillage implements, and track hoe sitting alongside a soybean field are a threat to code, claim officials in Madison County, a locale consistently ranked among the highest in the nation for per capita crime.
āJust when you think youāve heard it all, you havenāt,ā Kitzman adds. āWeāve got murders and robberies in serious numbers in this county, but Iām the one facing fines or seizure or who knows what, all because I parked my agriculture equipment on my own land. This could happen to you, too.ā
Hell of an Irony
Soybean production, farm equipment auctions, land sales, and house construction, Danny Kitzman, 34, keeps a lot of irons in the fire. āIām just a guy trying to make a living in agriculture and Iām willing to do anything and everything. Iām a small, small farmer, but I hope to farm fulltime somewhere down the road.ā
āI love farm life. I do whatever it takes to make a buck and I donāt get in anyoneās business. Every time I save a dollar, it goes into equipment or land.ā
As the first half of a historically wet 2025 rolled along, Kitzmanāmirroring thousands of Mid-South producers in Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippiāhad major planting issues. On a particular 11-acre soybean field parallel to Highway 70, a stoneās throw from the boundary line between Madison County and Haywood County, Kitzman threw in the towel on a small portion of the acreage.
āMaybe itāll end up getting planted this year; maybe not. I took a tiny bit of the field, put down some gravel, and parked some vehiclesāequipment I use for or in all my agribusiness operations. I live and have my business headquarters in Crockett County, so this was a great overflow location for me. Itās a rural parking spot so far out that itās almost not in Madison County.ā
Surrounded by cultivated fields, a requisite Dollar General, a house just visible through a tree line six acres distant, a sawmill across the highway, and flanked by an approximately 200-acre solar farm, Kitzman placed an assortment of agriculture machinery atop his gravel strip, from dirt buckets to tillage equipment.
Beyond the equipment, his acreage contained no buildings; no signs; and no electricity.
Reading between the lines, it appears that they are accusing him of running an equipment sales business off of the property, and it sound like that is exactly what he is doing.
Not that that is wrong, and I'm not siding with the county, but there is almost always more to the story.
Tennessee Farmer Penalized by County for Parking Ag Equipment in Soybean Field
In western Tennessee, Danny Kitzmanās farm machinery on his turn row is a threat to county code.
www.agweb.com
āJust when you think youāve heard it all, you havenāt,ā Kitzman adds. āWeāve got murders and robberies in serious numbers in this county, but Iām the one facing fines or seizure or who knows what, all because I parked my agriculture equipment on my own land. This could happen to you, too.ā
Hell of an Irony
Soybean production, farm equipment auctions, land sales, and house construction, Danny Kitzman, 34, keeps a lot of irons in the fire. āIām just a guy trying to make a living in agriculture and Iām willing to do anything and everything. Iām a small, small farmer, but I hope to farm fulltime somewhere down the road.ā
āI love farm life. I do whatever it takes to make a buck and I donāt get in anyoneās business. Every time I save a dollar, it goes into equipment or land.ā
As the first half of a historically wet 2025 rolled along, Kitzmanāmirroring thousands of Mid-South producers in Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippiāhad major planting issues. On a particular 11-acre soybean field parallel to Highway 70, a stoneās throw from the boundary line between Madison County and Haywood County, Kitzman threw in the towel on a small portion of the acreage.
āMaybe itāll end up getting planted this year; maybe not. I took a tiny bit of the field, put down some gravel, and parked some vehiclesāequipment I use for or in all my agribusiness operations. I live and have my business headquarters in Crockett County, so this was a great overflow location for me. Itās a rural parking spot so far out that itās almost not in Madison County.ā
Surrounded by cultivated fields, a requisite Dollar General, a house just visible through a tree line six acres distant, a sawmill across the highway, and flanked by an approximately 200-acre solar farm, Kitzman placed an assortment of agriculture machinery atop his gravel strip, from dirt buckets to tillage equipment.
Beyond the equipment, his acreage contained no buildings; no signs; and no electricity.
Reading between the lines, it appears that they are accusing him of running an equipment sales business off of the property, and it sound like that is exactly what he is doing.
Not that that is wrong, and I'm not siding with the county, but there is almost always more to the story.
