In The Field

Successful Dairy Systems Field Days With a Focus on Stockmanship Training & Animal Welfare

Three free 4 hour workshops were held in August in Minnesota and Wisconsin focusing on dairy stockmanship. The workshops focused on the interactions between humans and cows, and included low-stress handling techniques. Animal welfare issues such as the mechanisms for properly evaluating and caring for livestock were also discussed. Worker health and …

National Farm Medicine Center Hosts Two Intern Students

The National Farm Medicine Center hosted two students as part of a national summer internship program providing practical experience in the field of occupational safety. Ivanna Pereyra, Salisbury University, and Taylor Arnold, University of Memphis, spent eight weeks in Marshfield, Wis., working primarily on Seguridad en las Lecherias, a project that …

UMASH at Agricultural Media Summit

Ag media editors tell us that safety ranks low in reader surveys. How can we work with media to make safety a more compelling read? NFMC Communications Specialist Scott Heiberger and research partner Dr. Jim Evans, University of Illinois, are attending the Agricultural Media Summit in Indianapolis. Heiberger and Evans are finishing a pilot project aimed …

Communications Specialist Named to Ag Safety Board

Scott Heiberger, a communications specialist with the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC), Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and for the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) at the University of Minnesota has been named to the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH) Board of Directors. ISASH is dedicated …

UMASH at International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH) 2014

The International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health held its annual meeting June 24-26 in Omaha, Neb. Several UMASH staff from the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC) attended and presented.

UMASH Presenters at 2014 National Cattleman’s Beef Association’s State Beef Quality Assurance Coordinators meeting

Jim Lee and Tim Goldsmith gave a presentation and led discussion on worker health and safety training into quality assurance programs at the 2014 National Cattleman’s Beef Association’s State Beef Quality Assurance Coordinators meeting in Denver, CO May 15 & 16th. The meeting is an assembly of around fifty State Beef Quality Assurance …

UMASH at the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin Business Conference

UMASH attended the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin Business Conference, March 12-13, in Madison. Yurany Ninco Sanchez (left), the National Farm Medicine Center’s new bilingual community outreach trainer, spoke with farmers about the center’s free dairy worker training, which underpins a UMASH research project. Ninco Sanchez, Scott …

UMASH Sponsors Research Exchange Meeting

A new Research Exchange Meeting, sponsored by UMASH was held on May 2, at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. The exchange featured researchers and staff from Minnesota’s UMASH, Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS), Wisconsin’s National Farm Medicine Center, and from Iowa’s Great Plains Center …

Carrie Klumb, MPH Presents Environmental Health Seminar

Carrie Klumb, MPH, Senior Epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health presented a seminar “A One Health Approach to Healthy Fairs” at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health as part of the Environmental Health Seminar Series on February 13, 2014. The presentation provided an overview of the Minnesota Department of Health’s …

UMASH at the Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health Conference in Iowa

UMASH personnel were well represented at the November 19-20, 2013 Midwest Regional Agricultural Safety and Health Conference (MRASH) – “The Many Faces of Agriculture” held in Ames, Iowa. Amy Liebman, MPA, MA, UMASH Project Co-Director, presented on Seguridad en Las Lecherias; Matt Keifer, MD, MPH, UMASH Co-Director and Project Director, presented …

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