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Keeping youngsters safe this summer season

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association July 24, 2018

With long, hot days on the horizon, children will be presenting parents with summer challenges unique to the season. Out with the school bell and the mad dash for the bus; in with curious kids at your feet looking to imitate you at every turn. For farm kids out on summer holidays, the insatiable need […] Read more

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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

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How to have the perfect seeding baby

Nurse Loves Farmer: During seeding on the farm may not be the best time to have a baby but it all worked out

By Sarah Schultz May 10, 2017

Ever since we had our second baby boy after harvest in 2012, I wondered if we would have just one more. Maybe we’d get a little girl to add to our family, or maybe we were just perfect as we were with our two little boys. We hemmed and hawed for 2-1/2 years unable to […] Read more

Famer and His Son Standing Side by Side Leaning on a Gate

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Farm safety for tweens and teens

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

By Shanyn Silinski March 15, 2017

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

When the Weyburn Multiple 4H Club held its annual public speaking contest in January, speech topics ranged from water polo to intercropping.

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Editor’s Column: Our first forays into 4-H

By Leeann Minogue February 22, 2017

I grew up on a farm without ever knowing anything about 4-H. (Don’t call child protective services or Ag Canada. I’ve looked into it, and my parents can’t be prosecuted. Surprisingly, it’s totally legal to let this happen.) Because I grew up with this disadvantage, it didn’t occur to me to enrol my own son […] Read more

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Create a parent/kid farm safety contract

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 8, 2016

A contract is an essential business tool. Farmers sign agreements and contracts as a part of running the business. Rental contracts, supply management agreements and production contracts and some types of formal agreements that a farmer might sign in the daily running of the farming operation. Even when employing a farm hand, an agreement is […] Read more

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Create safe play areas for kids

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association February 22, 2016

This year, for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is working towards “Keeping Kids Safe” as a part of the three-year theme of “Be An Ag Safe Family.” Part of keeping kids safe on the farm is creating, using, and maintaining a safe play area. Play teaches children co-operation. Play helps children […] Read more

Farm Life, Features

Working with returning kids

Learn how to relate to the next generation when they come home to farm

By Michael Flood April 6, 2015

In a high-energy keynote presentation at this year’s FarmTech conference in Edmonton Jason Dorsey, a U.S.-based expert on generational differences and the chief strategy officer of the Center for Generational Kinetics, briefed a packed conference hall on the sources of strife between parents and children in family businesses. His audience was ready to hear his […] Read more

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Raising kids down on the farm

It’s not all one long Disney movie, but there are also many lifestyle benefits

By Lisa Guenther March 23, 2015

It’s a cliché, but it’s a cliché because there’s some truth to it. Farms are great places for kids to build character. I asked farmers on Twitter what they thought about raising kids on farms. Work ethic kept coming up. Terry James, an Alberta farmer, said some employers value former farm kids for their work […] Read more

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Cultivating little green thumbs

School Green Team gets hands-on experience growing veggies

By Edna Manning June 10, 2014

As part of her Grade 3 Green Team science project at Dundonald School in Saskatoon a couple of years ago, Dr. Debbie Miket helped her students plan and plant a small vegetable garden. “A friend told me she wouldn’t be using a portion of her garden plot, so I asked if our Green Team could […] Read more

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Tag Archives children

Keeping youngsters safe this summer season

Keeping your grandchildren safe on the farm

How to have the perfect seeding baby

Farm safety for tweens and teens

Editor’s Column: Our first forays into 4-H

Create a parent/kid farm safety contract

Create safe play areas for kids

Working with returning kids

Raising kids down on the farm

Cultivating little green thumbs

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