If the tresspasser is injured because of an "unsafe condition" on the land, the land owner is not only liable, but subject to penalities. What might such an unsafe condition be? How about the ATV driver running into a barbed wire fence? One then may have to convince a jury that one was not negligent because he had a fence to keep the cows in. Most city dewllers have no concept of what is required to operate a farm.
The main reason we are working to get agriculture back in the classroom. I work with a coalition called Ag Net. One of our members went to a class to talk with the kids about ag and the teacher said "Mr. Smith is here to tell us what little animal cotton comes from." Ag Net has a grant through Cal Poly to make corriculum for K-12. It should be in the classroom by fall of 2002. We also work are on the advisory board for Ag in the Classroom.