Wow, never gave this any thought, never really heard of the issue
other than the fights about where the fence had been built in relation to boundaries.
It always just seemed .like the person who wanted the fence( and usually the cows) built the fence. I know ranchers were the first settlers in many places,
And in the West they didn't fence. But I have a hard time getting past the
fact that "No cows, no problem", and whoever has cows, either has, or creates
the "problem. Making it their problem to fix.
Just can't imagine making a crop farmer pay to keep his neighbors
animals contained.
Geographic/cultural thing I guess.
Open range meets farmland.
Is it simply the fact that the cows were there first,
making the crops the problem?
