Nelly, you know as well as all of us that it hasn't rained in the past month. Good farming practice in dry conditions would be to place ring feeder at furthest point from gate so to save wear and tear around and about the gate from animals congregating at the gate. In wet conditions nearer to the gate is the norm to reduce churning by farm machinery. The area in this instance is 4 dry acres. In this scenereo are you seriously suggesting that this so called farmer is acting reasonable and neighborly by "deliberately" feeding his stock practically on top of my kitchen table? It's not as if he's short of space. Lets be honest here some farmers are reasonable some aren't. By the way have you ever noticed that none of them have a bale or as much of a pike of it in the vicinity of their on homes? Don't even try to justify this mans ignorance.