A ride on the family tractor has been a rite of passage for generations of farm kids - but in the wake of last week's death of a one-year-old child in an accident near Cayuga, some are questioning the wisdom of letting kids near tractors.

More than a hundred children are killed and thousands seriously injured each year on American farms, according to the National Agricultural Tractor Safety Initiative, which advises that children younger than 12 not ride on a tractor.

Is it time to ban children on farm tractors?  Get more on the story here via the Fargo Forum...

 

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