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Don’t become a statistic. 60,000 people were treated in emergency rooms for non-fatal, agriculture-related injuries from 2015 ...
National Farm Safety and Health Week is Sept. 18-24. In May of this year, a farmer in southeast Iowa was pinned by a piece of machinery and killed; later that month, an eastern Iowa man was killed ...
Massive investment in agricultural safety nets combines with higher estate exemptions to protect multi-generational farm ...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported Feb. 22, 2023, “Globally, at least 170,000 agriculture workers are fatally injured every year. Nationally 60 to 70 per 100,000 ...
After decades of payments to farmers that increased when market returns were low, the U.S. crop safety net has shifted, ...
As occupational injuries continue to grow in the agricultural industry, President George W. Bush has officially declared the week of Sept. 16-22 National Farm Safety and Health Week. The focus will ...
Farm safety negligence was considered an unpatriotic act during wartime. As WWII raged in 1943, Minnesota Cooperative Extension agent George M. Gehant wrote that the energy and resources lost to ...
Rural Firefighters Deliver Ag Safety and Health — known as RF-DASH — will hold a training session at the John Hejl farm near ...
When volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians swarmed a Sadsbury Township farm in the sweltering heat on July 6, they rushed to the diesel shed and saw a gruesome sight.
Republicans’ tax and spending package, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, included a so-called skinny Farm Bill, covering ...
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