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During a training exercise, students hid around a tractor while another student in the cab tried to spot them, most remained unseen. That highlighted the need to do a walk around before starting machinery.
Machinery

U of M hopes to expand machine safety training

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As a group of students were clustered around and under a tractor, another student in the cab looked out to try and see them. It was all part of the University of Manitoba’s first tractor safety training day. The point of the exercise was to show a class of ag students how many bind spots […] Read more
Students in the U. of M. ag certificate program took part in a pilot project that added a machinery safety-training day to their course.
Machinery

U of M holds first tractor safety day

Pilot project aims to teach ag students about on-farm machinery safety

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Last weekend I found myself sitting in the local Tim Hortons having coffee with a retired farmer. He was missing some fingers on his left hand from an amputation. And it made me think of how many retired — and current — farmers I know just in this area that have similar injuries from a […] Read more
Famer and His Son Standing Side by Side Leaning on a Gate
News

Farm safety for tweens and teens

They’re no longer children, but they’re not fully-matured adults yet

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Gone are the days here where the number of hands determined the success of the farm, regardless of the age of those hands. We no longer have to ask children to risk their health and education to ensure the family farm makes a profit. That does not lessen the desire for our young people to […] Read more
Safety on your farm: it’s not hard
News

Safety on your farm: it’s not hard

Building a safe farm operation may seem overwhelming; it’s just a change of attitude

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Having a safe farming operation is not as hard as it seems. It starts with a change of attitude — letting go of old traditions and habits. Considering how serious our work is, how seriously we should take the safety of our workers and family, and how seriously we need to take the impressions we […] Read more
Merlo retools
Features, Machinery

Merlo retools

The telehandler company is going through a major update of its product line and manufacturing facility

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As he stood in front of a group of Canadian dealers and customers at his Cuneo, Italy, facility, Amilcare Merlo, owner of the company that produces Merlo telehandlers, explained that his firm was in the midst of a 150 million Euro (C$208 million) reinvestment project. It’s aimed not only at updating the brand’s manufacturing facility, […] Read more
We Canadians cannot control our ducks.
Columns, Hart Attacks

Mallards next on the U.S. no-fly list

Hart Attacks: We Canadians cannot control our ducks, and what they carry with them

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With a Twitter-happy president south of the border, I predict it is just a matter of time before Canada — and migrating Canadian ducks specifically — receives nasty tweets for pooping out weed seeds on U.S. farms. That would almost be a joke except that President Trump appears to be such an unpredictable character, with […] Read more
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Crops

CCGA cash advance applications out early

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Among other changes to the program, applications are available earlier this year for spring cash advances through the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). The CCGA on Thursday announced it’s now accepting applications for the 2017-18 advance payments program (APP), which offers cash advances on 45 different crop and livestock commodities. The CCGA is the administrative […] Read more
Family portrait standing in front of a red barn on the farm.
News, Wheat & Chaff

Commit to your farm during this Ag Safety Week

Canadian Agricultural Safety Week runs March 12 - 18

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This March, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is celebrating Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW). This is the second year of the “Be an AgSafe Family” theme. In 2017, CASW is “Appealing to Adults.” What does that mean? Appealing to Adults? Well, statistics tell us that each year approximately 85 […] Read more

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