Health and Safety

From the farm shop to the field, follow these farm safety tips to keep yourself, employees, and your family safe. This section includes safety tips for transportation, grain bins, and the farm shop as well as health information.
Sparkles the therapeutic cat
New plumbing
Chemo mask for tonsil cancer
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A fellow traveler
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Wearable technology makes the workplace safer
Pesticide containers on trailer
3 Tips to transport pesticides safely
Young man stands in front of a grain bin with signs that read "Gahler Innovations LLC" and "Grain Gyre"
Teenage inventor aims to eliminate grain bin deaths
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Protecting your brain from farm stress
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A simple padlock can save a life
Aerial view of grain bins
Out-of-condition grain can cause engulfment in seconds
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3 Simple questions can prevent an accident
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Harvest Safety Week focuses on workplace culture
Tractor safety demonstration
Safety Week offers opportunities for learning
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Manure pit accidents are more deadly than not
Grain bin rescue tube
Grain entrapment, livestock waste handling injuries and deaths on the rise
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Walking the path of grief
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Be prepared for tornadoes on the farm
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7 Ways to dress safely during a prescribed burn
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Protect your eyes from the dangers of farming
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4 Grain bin safety tips
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Grain entrapments down; fatality rate still high
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Enter your fire department to win grain bin rescue equipment
Jake and Luke Prater on cattle gate
Farmers, ranchers sought for study on balancing children and work
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Healthcare lags in rural America
Three cars parked outside the Scotland County Hospital in rural Missouri
Ten rural Missouri hospitals closed since 2012. Scotland County hopes to avoid that fate
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Feeling thankful
Hospital monitor
You aren't going home
Box of tissues and a bottle of NyQuil
It's just a cold
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Your part in keeping rural roads safe
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Prevent a tree stand accident
An Iowa farmer fills a grain bin at harvest
6 simple tips for a safe harvest this fall
Man in a gray shirt stands in library.
Dick Beardsley: A dairyman's journey to sobriety
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Purdue study: Fewer farm-related deaths in Indiana in 2021
Christmas Gift Guide: Mobilize Rescue Systems - Compact Rescue System 219460
8 ways to keep farm families safe
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Farm Rescue to expand service to Illinois in 2023
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Back pain can be attributed to whole-body vibration
A farmer overlooks his farm as the sunsets.
Aging farmers are at greater risk of suicide, study finds
three men consoling
Learn how to help farmers who may be suicidal
Elderly woman with caregiver
Program aims to improve palliative care in rural communities
Illinois brothers-in-law join forces to face tragedy together
Brothers-in-law band together after tragedy strikes twice
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Health needs of women in ag overlooked
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Learn to help farmers who may be suicidal
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Training for rural nurses helps keep farmers healthy
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6 Ways to make farm safety a priority this spring
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A planting season pep talk
Farmer climbs in a John Deere tractor
9 tips for coping with farm stress
A tractor applying anhydrous ammonia
Tips for safely applying and transporting anhydrous ammonia
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Farm Rescue helps farmers facing illness, injury, or natural disasters
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Free webinars offered during Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week
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Can practicing presence make farming less stressful?
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Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Equipment safety
Will Prater feeding bottle calf
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Youth safety
Lighting strikes over a field.
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Disaster preparedness
A farmer holding money while sitting at a picnic table.
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: The finances of safety
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Lost under the ice
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Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Livestock safety
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Watch Out For Power Lines
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Nominate your fire department to win a grain bin rescue tube
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Be mindful of your movement to prevent injuries
A farmer overlooks his farm as the sunsets.
Who am I if I am not a farmer anymore?
A farmer looking at paperwork in a field.
Stigma still surrounds mental health, Iowa farmers say
A husband and wife walk through a field.
6 tips for stress-busting your marriage
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Winter survival: Prepare, be aware
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10 ways to mind your mental health during the holidays