Agriculture

Keith H. Anderson, 89, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, at George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Viewings will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, and from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30. The funeral will begin at 11 a.m. Monday. All services will be held at the Fielding Stake Center, 4375 W. 15600 North, Fielding. Interment will be at the Valley View Cemetery in Bothwell. Condolences may be posted at ruddfuneralhome.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

SYRACUSE -- If "Livestock Jeopardy" becomes a television game show, four Davis County teens could clean up as contestants.

SANDY -- A fire Monday at an animal feed plant forced authorities to evacuate some nearby residents as they worked to put out the blaze and keep chemicals from getting into the air.

Farming is a dangerous way to make a living.

Livestock can be unpredictable and injure caregivers; farmers use heavy machinery that can tip and crush them; silos that store grain can become death traps that suffocate workers.

Each year, according to the National Child Labor Coalition, 30 children are killed working on farms. Twelve of those are hired help.

The Washington, D.C.-based coalition of unions, child-welfare organizations and human rights groups noted in testimony presented to support tighter regulations, "In 2006, an estimated 5,800 children and adolescents were injured while performing farm work. Every summer young farm workers are run over or lose limbs to tractors and machinery. Heat stress and pesticides pose grave dangers."

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah agriculture officials investigating a salmonella outbreak say they're trying to find how a West Valley City man dubbed "Mr. Cheese" got raw milk to illegally produce homemade queso fresco.

Many in the Top of Utah may have forgotten the torrential rains and flooding this past spring, but area farmers are just fully feeling the effects in lower yields and late harvests caused by wet ground and late planting.

WEST POINT -- Top of Utah farmers and the Utah Department of Transportation are still trying to find some middle ground to save some planting ground.