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UMASH at Minnesota Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

UMASH exhibited at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Farm Bureau on November 18, 2016. It was a great opportunity to network with others in agriculture and to share our resources with people across the state. We were interested in learning more about the attendees’ knowledge and participation in agritourism and found that nearly all we asked …

UMASH at 2015 Midwest Regional Agricultural Safety and Health (MRASH) Conference

On November 17-18, 2015 UMASH participated in the Midwest Regional Agricultural Safety and Health Conference, held at Decorah, Iowa. This conference included agricultural producers, researchers and other safety and health professionals. UMASH personnel attending included: Joni Sheftel, with a Keynote presentation on “What Can We Learn From the Avian …

UMASH at 2016 MRASH Conference

Jessica Evanson, a second year veterinary public health and preventive medicine resident at the University of Minnesota, presented findings at the 2016 MRASH conference in Sioux Center, Iowa on November 15, 2016. Her oral presentation titled, “A summary of injuries reported at swine production companies”, focused on the burden that animal …

SPOTLIGHT: Ag Injury News Clippings Database

AgInjuryNews.org is a great resource to monitor injury and fatality trends. These are not official numbers, but are gleaned from news reports across the U.S. Developed by staff at the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS) in 2015, this web-based tool compiles newspaper articles through a combination of Google alerts, review of media clippings and verified personal submissions. …