Photo provided by the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH) Use the following format to cite this article: Livestock trailer safety. (2012) Farm and Ranch eXtension in Safety and Health (FReSH) Community of Practice. Retrieved from http://www.extension.org/pages/64391/livestock-trailer-safety. Towing a livestock trailer is a common practice on most farms and ranches. …
Safety in Agriculture for Youth (SAY) is a grant project funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a sustainable and accessible national clearinghouse for agricultural safety and health curriculum for youth. For the funding period of 2021 – 2025, the SAY Project now consists of three …
Click here for more information about the SAY Project. Youth Educators! Search for safety-related curricula by topic here. The Safety in Agriculture for Youth (SAY) Project provides a clearinghouse for agricultural safety and health curriculum and resources for those individuals who teach youth. The SAY National Clearinghouse consists of two different types of educational products: …
Women are more likely to have livestock operations than traditional field crops. Proper animal handling techniques are important for all producers but due to physiological characteristics (e.g., height, strength, etc.) it is even more important for women to learn how to work smarter rather than harder to improve the health of her herd as well …
The Ag Safety and Health Community of Practice and the Enhancing Educational Programming for Beginning Farm and Ranch Women are working together to provide a one-stop for resources about agricultural safety, health, and mechanization information specifically for women. Based on the 2017 Census of Agriculture, women represent 36% of all American agricultural producers, which an …
Preface Like crops themselves, teaching agricultural safety has its seasons. Over a career, an instructor might see periods when awareness and support of agricultural safety programs are high and parents, producers, and employees want more programs in the school or in the workplace. Then there are times when the focus shifts to other topics, and …
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Photograph is copyright Luc Asbury and is used under Creative Commons licensing. This webinar was presented by Scott Cotton, University of Wyoming Area Educator and EDEN Chair-elect, and Curt Emanuel, Purdue Extension Educator and Boone County Extension Director. Cotton has been with Extension since 1993 and involved in disasters since 1972. His emergency/disaster roles have ranged …
(Source: The Ohio State University) FARM S.O.S (Strategies On Safety) is an agricultural safety education series developed by the Ohio State Agricultural Safety and Health Program. The Farm S.O.S curriculum consists of 13 topics and involves an easy-to-use presentation that includes speaker notes as well as educational videos for some topics. Target Audiences The target audiences for Farm S.O.S …
Use the following format to cite this article: Lightning protection systems. (2014) Farm and Ranch eXtension in Safety and Health (FReSH) Community of Practice. Retrieved from http://articles.extension.org/pages/71216/lightning-protection-systems. Lightning protection systems are recommended for all barns to reduce the risk of damage sustained from a lightning strike. Thunderstorms involving lightning occur across the United States …
(Source: University of Vermont Extension) University of Vermont Extension 4-H has developed an online educational game called “Play It Farm Safe.” The Play It Farm Safe game is a self-paced learning tutorial for youth ages 12 through 15 that addresses the following topics: tractor and machinery safety animal and livestock safety ATV safety woodlot safety general …
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