Where Safety Meets Fun: UMASH Wellness Pavilion at Farmfest 2025
For the seventh year, on August 5-7, 2025, UMASH hosted the UMASH Wellness Pavilion at Minnesota Farmfest, the largest farm show in Minnesota. …
UMASH Wellness Pavilion Leads the Way in Living Healthy and Farming Safely at Minnesota Farmfest 2024
SEPTEMBER 2024 For the sixth year, on August 6-8, 2024, UMASH hosted the UMASH Wellness Pavilion at Minnesota Farmfest, the largest farm show in Minnesota. Hosted on the Gilfillan Estate in Redwood County, Minnesota, this event attracts thousands of farmers, workers, families, state and local officials, and community members from across the region. …
Reaching Across Regions at MN Farmfest
AUGUST 2021 With MN Farmfest 2021 back in person, the UMASH team set out on the road to Redwood County to provide up-to-date safety and health information to Minnesota farmers, farm workers and their families. The showgrounds attracted over 28,000 attendees throughout the three-day event from August 3-5 exhibiting the latest ag products, services, and …
Staying Safe and Staying in Business: a Farmfest Panel
AUGUST 2020 “We’ve transitioned the event online” seems to be the norm for the time being. This year, Minnesota Farmfest moved their programming online. UMASH and the Minnesota Safety Council co-hosted a panel on August 4, 2020, Staying Safe and Staying in Business, to launch the three days of live programming. There are many risks on the farm- …
SPOTLIGHT: Allow Me To Demonstrate
JULY 2020 Demonstrations can be an effective method of both teaching and learning. In addition to reading and hearing information, seeing and practicing can help one understand even better. In an effort to keep farmers up to date with safety and health information, UMASH is going online with the help and expertise of a number of organizations. The UMASH …
Under the Roof at Farmfest
The UMASH staff hit the road and got their boots on the ground in Redwood County, MN, for Farmfest 2019, which attracts over 30,000 people every year. This year (2019) UMASH collaborated with Farm Bureau Financial to bring a new venue to the show. The Farm Bureau Financial Wellness and Safety Pavilion was a joint venture to bring health and safety …
UMASH Brings Health and Safety to Farmfest
A new Wellness and Safety Pavilion brought health, safety and wellness resources and activities to attendees at Minnesota Farmfest, August 6-8, 2019. Co-sponsored by Farm Bureau Financial Services and UMASH, the area featured live safety demonstrations, free health screenings, and a large health and safety exhibitor tent (25+ organizations) with resources …
SPOTLIGHT: One Stop Shop for Wellness and Safety at Minnesota Farmfest
AUGUST 2019 Being efficient is key to getting jobs done on the farm. Farm Bureau Financial Services and UMASH understand this need and encourage farmers to be safe and healthy at the same time. New to Farmfest this year is the Farm Bureau Financial Services Wellness and Safety Pavilion. It is a one stop shop to learn from over 25 exhibitors on …
SPOTLIGHT: The Multiplier Effect – US Ag Centers at Minnesota Farmfest
JULY 2019 The term “multiplier effect” is a term you may be familiar with and one commonly used in the world of economics. UMASH and our neighboring U.S. Agricultural Safety and Health Centers also apply the multiplier effect in the world of safety and health as it relates to reaching farmers, farm families and workers. UMASH and our colleagues …
SPOTLIGHT: In the Interest of Safety
The phrase, “in a split second” is used frequently to describe all types of situations that happen quickly and without time to react, many of which can be life threatening events. …