Ted Dykman grew up on the Abbotsford dairy farm an accounting firm now oversees.

Over the past 60 years, his family-owned cattle company has navigated industrial change, weather woes and the raising of large-scale livestock — only to see a dispute with a bank bring the business to its knees. 

A B.C. Supreme Court judge placed Dykman's farm into creditor protection late last month following an application from the Bank of Nova Scotia citing a default and mounting interest payments on $75 million w…