“Little things” come together to put life in danger

It was April 6, 2003 and Brett Verhoeven, a 20 year old from Salmon Arm, B.C., has just landed a summer job with a neigh-bour who was milking 300 cows and cropping about 300 acres. Verhoeven knew the job well. He was raised on a 125-cow dairy farm that grew crops on about 200 acres. […] Read more

FARM SAFETY – How a moment can change your life

It was a typical summer evening in southern Manitoba, when the lives of Darlene and Roy Vust of Portage la Prairie, Man., were changed forever. Darlene was in the kitchen pickling when she looked out the window to see a neighbour’s truck coming up the lane faster than it ought to. As she opened the […] Read more