AUGUST 2022

Once again, UMASH and MN Farmfest joined together from August 2 – 4 in Redwood County, MN, to help keep farmers and their families across the Upper Midwest Living Healthy and Farming Safely all year long. Throughout the three-day event, approximately 30,000 attendees made their way across the showgrounds visiting exhibitors to get the latest on ag products, technologies, and services, including the UMASH Wellness Pavilion. This wouldn’t have been possible without support from our sponsors, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minnesota State Southern Agricultural Center of Excellence, Has San Lake Mutual Insurance Company, 40 Square Cooperative Solutions, Minnesota Farm Bureau, and South Dakota Farmers Union.

The UMASH Wellness Pavilion

The UMASH Wellness Pavilion served as a one-stop shop for attendees to get up-to-date farm safety and health information with health screenings provided by the Mobile Health Initiative and Roadmap to Health, live safety demonstrations, and farm safety and wellness exhibitors from around the nation. As showgoers entered, they got a chance to visit with over twenty of our agricultural safety and health partners to learn about a variety of farm safety and health topics. Attendees of all ages visited UMASH outreach team members Megan Schossow, Carol Peterson, Justine Bauer, and Cassie Edlund to put their farm safety knowledge to the test, spinning the UMASH Farm Safety Wheel for a chance to win safety giveaways.

Outside the pavilion featured five live safety demonstrations covering tractor rollover, confined spaces, grain bin, power takeoff, ATV and UTV safety hosted by our partners from the University of Minnesota Extension, Progressive Agriculture Safety Days, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, Southern Agricultural Center of Excellence and the North Mankato Fire Department. Attendees actively learned how they can prevent injuries and take proper precautions when working on the farm.

Thank you Farmfest '22 Sponsors!

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Coming together under one big tent, sponsors, exhibitors, and partners shared key information and resources to keep farmers and their families safe, healthy, and injury free.

Words from our Event Exhibitors:

“We reached people!! That is what we want to do…and we are able to do it here.”

“The event as a whole offered a ton of networking opportunities and I was able to meet people who I’ve only previously met online.”

“Overall, I think it was a great event and plan on being back next year.”

RESOURCES

SPOTLIGHT: Confined Spaces

OSHA defines a confined space as having “limited or restricted means for entry or exit and is not designed for continuous occupancy.”

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SPOTLIGHT: Raising the Bar on Tractor Safety

Tractors and farming are nearly one and the same. Tractors are used to do many things on the farm from mowing ditches, to planting corn to hauling rocks and grading the driveway.

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Farm Safety Check: Grain Handling Safety

Grain handling is a high-hazard activity, where workers face serious injury and death. Youth should not be in grain bins or silos or in/around flat storage structures unless they are empty, proper lock-out/tag-out and other safety procedures are followed, and the youth is at least 16 years old.

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