{"id":2908,"date":"2025-07-31T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:56:13","slug":"farmer-and-16-cows-found-dead-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"Farmer And 16 Cows Found Dead, Cause Of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wisconsin Farmer and 16 Cattle Die in Manure Tank Gas Tragedy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 29-year-old farmer, Michael Biadasz, died from gas poisoning at his family\u2019s farm in Amherst, Wisconsin, after a \u201cdeadly dome of air\u201d formed over a manure tank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixteen cattle also died from the toxic fumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael\u2019s father, Bob Biadasz, called it a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of rare weather conditions. Warm air trapped gases like methane or sulfur oxide, preventing them from dissipating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cThe family is devastated, absolutely devastated,\u201d said Portage County Coroner Scott Rifleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rifleman noted the incident was unusual: \u201cGas poisoning deaths typically occur in closed areas,\u201d and said Michael had safely emptied the tank many times before. An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biadasz family paid tribute by lining farm machinery along the road, including Michael\u2019s black pickup truck. The tragedy has sparked calls for stricter safety rules on manure tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The NASD urges precautions: \u201cOwners should be encouraged to follow a few precautionary measures to protect both workers and livestock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Farmer and 16 Cattle Die in Manure Tank Gas Tragedy A 29-year-old farmer, Michael Biadasz, died from gas poisoning at his family\u2019s farm in Amherst, Wisconsin, after a \u201cdeadly dome of air\u201d formed over a manure tank. Sixteen cattle also died from the toxic fumes. Michael\u2019s father, Bob Biadasz, called it a \u201cperfect storm\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}