More research where you least expect it

In a character's backstory, I needed his mother to die in a plausible way on a farm. Since I have lunch with my dairy farmer friend every Monday (she, like me, works many jobs -- we both work at the library and she is also clerk of her township) I figured I'd ask her how a woman would die on a farm.

I'm glad my notion was validated that it's more often men who die farming. Another of my good friends lost her dad that way. He stuck his head between two pieces of machinery, and one of them moved. (