Actually, that is a huge, covered cattle ‘finishing barn’. Inside are multiple pens. I haven’t talked to them yet, but I suspect they bring cattle in off pasture, feed them up with grain, then ship them off to “the spa”. We call it the ‘cow palace’. They keep the place very clean/orderly so we hope it’s not an issue when the weather warms up - the way the wind blows, it won’t be blowing from the palace towards our place. I am optimistically considering it a potential source of cow compost. One other thing I noticed - the deer come by & clean up hay & grain scraps. Occasionally we hear ‘moos’ around dinner time, but after having grandparents (both sets) who had farms & cows (one had a dairy), cow sounds are like being back at the grandparents’ farms.
As far as country smells, it depends. When growing up I enjoyed the smell of damp earth that gets blown from a far away thunderstorm (petrichor) or the smell of apple blossoms or hedge lilacs. (I do have 4 lilac bushes at this house!)
On the other hand, even though I grew up on the edge of town, I was 2 miles from a pig farm and always knew when the wind was from the southwest. Be glad you did not move in next to something like that! (SaraLee also had a factory in town about 3 miles south east of us and you always knew when they burned a run of pound cakes!)
From "Oklahoma" to the tune of "Oh the Farmer and cowboy can be friends" (Iowa version!)
"Oh a Hog Shed helps the hogs to live in style
And the profits that they bring make farmers smile
Runoff from the holding pond
Smells as bad as heck
As the people can attest round about for miles!"
Hopefully the "fragrance" of the cattle will not be too bad.