Delivering Ag Safety and Health Education – “Organically”
UMASH exhibited health and safety information related to agritourism, farmer stress and the Farm Safety Check at the Minnesota Organic Conference. …
Faces of UMASH: Meet Chela Vázquez
Hello! My name is Chela Vázquez. Hello! My name is Chela Vázquez. In 2018 I began working for UMASH as project coordinator and trainer for the Promoting Safety and Health for Immigrant Dairy Workers program. My previous experience working with immigrants in California, Southeast Asia, and Minnesota has taught me that agricultural workers face similar …
SPOTLIGHT: New and Improved Farm Safety Check
We’ve performed a quality review on all of our checklists to update links and resources, and created a new two-page fillable pdf with additional space for custom lists and recommended resources. …
SPOTLIGHT: Farming in Tough Times
UMASH collaborator Emily Wilmes talks about stress in farm country though collaborations and workshops like Farming in Tough Times. …
SPOTLIGHT: Cultivating Resiliency for Women in Agriculture
A new interactive online series is setting out to help women in agriculture cultivate resiliency by focusing on what they can control in these challenging times and connect them with resources and information that can help them weather stress. …
Resilience in the Face of Change Workshop
Dennis Hoiberg, an Austrailian change consultant, led a workshop to help farmers and those who work closely with farmers, rural communities and business leaders develop resilience to cope with change - at the personal, family, business and community level. …
Stressing Resilience at MRASH
The 2018 Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health ( MRASH) was held November 27 - 29 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Megan Schossow and Carol Peterson represented UMASH with an exhibit and three posters showcasing recent projects from the center. …
Needle Know How Webinar
UMASH Co-Director, Jeff Bender was a presenter on a November 28, 2018 webinar hosted by the National Pork Board and the National Hog Farmer. …
SPOTLIGHT: Farm Safety Training through Mobile Learning
A unique dairy safety training program brings training to the field/barn on iPad devices. The mobile learning curriculum included the UMASH positive animal handling videos. …
100 years and Counting: Farm Bureau Celebrates a Century
Megan Schossow and Carol Peterson from UMASH exhibited at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Farm Bureau on November 16, 2018. …