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.
Wearable technology makes the workplace safer
3 Tips to transport pesticides safely
Teenage inventor aims to eliminate grain bin deaths
Protecting your brain from farm stress
A simple padlock can save a life
Out-of-condition grain can cause engulfment in seconds
3 Simple questions can prevent an accident
Harvest Safety Week focuses on workplace culture
Safety Week offers opportunities for learning
Manure pit accidents are more deadly than not
Grain entrapment, livestock waste handling injuries and deaths on the rise
Walking the path of grief
Be prepared for tornadoes on the farm
7 Ways to dress safely during a prescribed burn
Protect your eyes from the dangers of farming
4 Grain bin safety tips
Grain entrapments down; fatality rate still high
Enter your fire department to win grain bin rescue equipment
Farmers, ranchers sought for study on balancing children and work
Healthcare lags in rural America
Ten rural Missouri hospitals closed since 2012. Scotland County hopes to avoid that fate
Feeling thankful
You aren't going home
It's just a cold
Your part in keeping rural roads safe
Prevent a tree stand accident
6 simple tips for a safe harvest this fall
Dick Beardsley: A dairyman's journey to sobriety
Purdue study: Fewer farm-related deaths in Indiana in 2021
8 ways to keep farm families safe
Farm Rescue to expand service to Illinois in 2023
Back pain can be attributed to whole-body vibration
Aging farmers are at greater risk of suicide, study finds
Learn how to help farmers who may be suicidal
Program aims to improve palliative care in rural communities
Brothers-in-law band together after tragedy strikes twice
Health needs of women in ag overlooked
Learn to help farmers who may be suicidal
Training for rural nurses helps keep farmers healthy
6 Ways to make farm safety a priority this spring
A planting season pep talk
9 tips for coping with farm stress
Tips for safely applying and transporting anhydrous ammonia
Farm Rescue helps farmers facing illness, injury, or natural disasters
Free webinars offered during Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week
Can practicing presence make farming less stressful?
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Equipment safety
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Youth safety
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Disaster preparedness
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: The finances of safety
Lost under the ice
Ag Safety Awareness Program Week: Livestock safety
Watch Out For Power Lines
Nominate your fire department to win a grain bin rescue tube
Be mindful of your movement to prevent injuries
Who am I if I am not a farmer anymore?
Stigma still surrounds mental health, Iowa farmers say
6 tips for stress-busting your marriage
Winter survival: Prepare, be aware
10 ways to mind your mental health during the holidays