Both the National Safety Council and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say agriculture is one of the ...

During this year’s Ag Safety Awareness Program Week, March 2-6, University of Missouri Extension health and safety specialist Karen Funkenbusch is encouraging farmers to make their health and ...

Farming may be the backbone of our food system, but it’s also one of the most dangerous occupations. According to a Penn State study, 60,000 people were treated in emergency rooms for non-fatal, ...

Fall harvest is quickly approaching and soon combines and other heavy farm equipment will be on the roads or highways across the High Plains. National Farm Safety and Health Week 2025 is set for Sept.

A farmer wears hearing protection and a mask while operating farm machinery. A dozen centers providing safety research and training to farmers are losing federal funding this fall under the Trump ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — An expert on ...

A new program aims to tackle agriculture’s deadly safety record by training farmer advocates, as the industry faces one of ...

A University of Maryland student sits in a John Deere tractor equipped with a rollover protective structure during a safety class at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Ellicott City ...

Farmers spend a good chunk of their professional lives out in nature, producing healthy crops that feed communities and the world. But if there is one drawback to farming, it’s that it is one of the ...

For the first three decades, the PUASHP thrived under the leadership of Professor F.R. (Dick) Willsey who was recognized as a premier example of the traditional Extension education specialist. He ...

In a quiet corner of Colorado’s rural plains, a devastating incident has left a tight-knit community in mourning. On a Wednesday evening, six workers, including a high school student, lost their lives ...