Please answer the following question by reasoning step-by-step.
A cow farm has quite the smell, that's why they tend to be located in a remote what?\nOptions:\n- corral\n- nursery rhyme\n- northern california\n- rural area\n- barnyard

rural area
Rural area is an open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and population density is very low.

A cow farm has quite the smell, that's why they tend to be located in a remote rural area.

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Thus, the answer is rural area