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A late spring doesn’t mean forgetting about on-farm farm safety

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association May 22, 2018

It has been a long winter by all accounts. Farmers across the Prairies are anxious to get the seed in the ground. According to the Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting data, agriculture-related fatalities happen most often from May to October. Of course, this makes sense, as this is when the majority of farming occurs; however, understanding […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Safety champion retired from farming, not farm safety

By Amy Petherick May 14, 2018

Even after he retired from farming, Albert Martin never retired from being a farm safety champion. For more than 40 years, Martin has been involved with the Waterloo Home and Farm Safety Association and he currently serves as the association’s current President. For many years, together with his wife Ruby, Martin managed an apple orchard […] Read more

Farm Life, FarmLife

Having the ‘s’ talk on your farm

Don’t wait for an accident to happen before you talk about safety

By Elaine Froese May 1, 2018

Like many of you, I’ve checked out the grain bin suffocation demonstration at the farm shows and collected many farm safety brochures. I think this spring is finally the time when we’ll do things more intentionally on our farm. Why now? We experienced family trauma in October during harvest when a key person crashed a […] Read more

Features, Wheat & Chaff

Seniors offer powerful sway over mental health on farms

By Amy Petherick April 23, 2018

On a multi-generational farm, the most senior members of the farm team have the ability to become one of the most powerful tools in the fight against mental illness. Of the farmers who gathered at an Ontario Federation of Agriculture workshop on mental health stigma that was offered last November, many in the standing-room-only crowd […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Statistics show senior farmers need safer work practices

By Alana Fearnall April 6, 2018

The good news is statistics indicate that farm fatalities are declining. The bad news is that for older farmers the fatality rate is much higher than any other age group. Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR) found that fatality rates are highest for older adults, aged 60 and over. In 2012, the fatality rate for older […] Read more

News, Wheat & Chaff

Celebrate Canadian Ag Safety Week by supporting seniors

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 16, 2018

This March, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA), the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and presenting sponsor Farm Credit Canada (FCC) are encouraging all Canadians to be part of the AgSafe Family during Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW). Canadian Agricultural Safety Week is an annual public awareness campaign focusing on the importance of safe agriculture. […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Attitude and the senior farmer

A safety audit of your farm is a great step to determine its current situation

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 8, 2018

Senior farmers have experience in spades. You have seen it all. Good years, great yields, good(ish) prices. Bad years, terrible yields, awful prices. You can probably fix it all. (Almost – some of that new equipment has many computer components.) You know your land like the back of your hand. What about physical capability? Is […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Keeping your grandchildren safe on the farm

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 2, 2018

If you talk to any grandparent, they say that having children was wonderful, but having grandchildren is pure joy. There’s nothing better than having a grandchild throw their arms around your neck and whisper “I love you.” These young people are a farm’s future and a grandparent’s legacy. The farm is an incredible place for […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Making farming safer for senior producers

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association February 26, 2018

In Canada, the face of farming is changing. More primary agricultural producers are women, and in the first time since 1991, the proportion of farmers under the age of 35 rose. However, the 2016 Agriculture Census also found that there were more farmers over age 70 than under 35. The reality of Canadian agricultural is […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Protecting workers and your farm

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association February 12, 2018

When you tally up your assets on your farm, you probably count the big ones: land, machinery, inputs, buildings, stored grain. But do you count your people? Your workers, your family and yourself? You should. These folks are your number one asset and as such need to be guided and protected. Keeping these people safe […] Read more

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Tag Archives Canadian Agricultural Safety Association

A late spring doesn’t mean forgetting about on-farm farm safety

Safety champion retired from farming, not farm safety

Having the ‘s’ talk on your farm

Seniors offer powerful sway over mental health on farms

Statistics show senior farmers need safer work practices

Celebrate Canadian Ag Safety Week by supporting seniors

Attitude and the senior farmer

Keeping your grandchildren safe on the farm

Making farming safer for senior producers

Protecting workers and your farm

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