This project will develop occupational safety and health (OSH) based curriculum to deliver to Minnesota agricultural educators that work with farm business management instruction, supervise high school students in agricultural workplaces, and/or coordinate college level agribusiness internships. …

Airborne exposures to fungi (molds) are common in agricultural settings. The results of these studies are likely to be important while considering fungal-exposure assessment methods, and for making informed therapeutic and diagnostic decisions for mold-associated diseases. …

This pilot project will develop an instrument that will both qualitatively assess and quantitatively measure the influence that agricultural lenders believe they exert on farmers and ranchers and vice-versa. …

This project will develop and organize “Healthy Fairs” workshops to educate fair and petting zoo operators about industry best practices for running a safe fair/zoo with the goal of reducing illness associated with animal contact at these events. …

Incorporating worker safety and health into Quality Assurance programs will help to provide tools to producers and assurances to consumers that the production systems used to produce animals are ensuring the health and safety of the animals as well as the workers raising those animals. …

Agricultural operators/Occupational workers are continuously exposed to a complex mix of chemical, biological, and particulate insults and are at risk for developing chronic inflammatory lung diseases. The objective of this proposal is to determine the extent to which secondary exposures to aflatoxin (a mycotoxin) can impact the development and maintenance of fungal allergic asthma. …

This pilot will lay the foundation for expanded and innovative coverage of agricultural safety and health by agricultural media. Findings will guide efforts to encourage increased coverage and provide resources agricultural media can use to do so effectively. …

This project seeks to describe the epidemiology of STEC infections and cryptosporidiosis in South Dakota, with special emphasis on agricultural and animal risk factors. …

This project proposes to work with Hmong farm families to develop educational materials, compare the effectiveness of various education methodologies, and expand the current Agricultural Health and Safety Program at the University of Minnesota to include pesticide and chemical safety education for Hmong and other limited-English proficiency (LEP) farmers. …

Cross-sectional studies on cord blood of term newborns found both pre- and post-natal environmental exposures are significantly associated with unique patterns of immunologic responses. Specifically, the immune response of infants born into farming environments is associated with increased production of proinflammatory cytokines determined from in vitro culture supernatants after culture with TLR agonists. …