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Spring Planting Requires Increased Focus on Safety
https://agsafety.osu.edu/news/spring-planting-requires-increased-focus-safety
which farmers increase their risk of injury, a safety expert with Ohio State University’s College of ... an Ohio State University Extension agricultural health and safety professional. OSU Extension is the ... COLUMBUS, Ohio – Working fast to get crops in to beat incoming weather is just one instance in ...
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Putting Farm Safety into Practice
Dee Jepsen – State Agricultural Safety and Health Leader The National Farm Safety and Health Week ... with the first observation being in 1944 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office. Ohio will ...
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‘Tis the Season for Funnel Clouds
for in the sky can alert you to a tornado and allow time for action. The Ohio Committee for Severe ... activity in Ohio occurs at the highest rates in the months of May and June. Tornado season is April – July, ... but the weather in Ohio last November points to the fact that anomalies do occur outside the ...
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Looking for Farmers to Participate in Grain Dust Study
Ohio farmers are being asked to participate in a study about their dust exposure while working ... of this research will help identify safety and health practices used on Ohio farms to help solve (or ... for corn, soybeans, and wheat. All Ohio farmers who own, manage, or use on-farm grain bin structures ...
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Battling Blight by Tackling Vacancies in Lima, Ohio
https://comdev.osu.edu/news/battling-blight-tackling-vacancies-lima-ohio
Vacant parcels and abandoned properties are a big problem for many of Ohio’s cities, some that ... costs, not to mention opportunity costs to local economies. A report by Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) ... in 2008 on eight shrinking cities in Ohio estimated annual costs of city services to these properties ...
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Ohio AgrAbility in Action: Rolling Lift Carts
Laura Akgerman – Disability Services Coordinator for Ohio AgrAbility Charlie Landis – Rural ... Rehabilitation Coordinator for Ohio AgrAbility Farm equipment is often heavy, bulky, hard to move, and could ... height is raised with a foot pedal and lowered with a hand release lever. An Ohio AgrAbility client who ...
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Reducing Stress for a Healthy Heart
of Ohio, and fall tillage is also completed in a lot of the state. Welcome rain has fallen across the ... Andy Bauer—Ohio AgrAbility Program Educational Coordinator Fall harvest is complete in most areas ... state. However, farmers may continue to experience stress related to marketing this crop with current ...
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Ohio State University Offers Agritourism Safety Tips for Consumers, Farmers
https://agsafety.osu.edu/ohio-state-university-offers-agritourism-safety-tips-consumers-farmers
prepared for safety, according to safety experts from Ohio State University’s College of Food, ... ensure they enjoy their farm visits without injury, said Eric Barrett, an Ohio State University Extension ... COLUMBUS, Ohio – From apple picking at a pick-your-own operation to pumpkin patches complete with ...
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Give to Community Development
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product of a strong working partnership. Federal, state and local government funds have supported ... Extension programs throughout Ohio for nearly 100 years. To augment these traditional funding streams, ...
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Ohio AgrAbility in Action: Lift Creepers
Laura Akgerman – Disability Services Coordinator for Ohio AgrAbility If you have ever had to spend ... power (electric powered lift) versions. One Ohio AgrAbility farmer who uses the Lift Creeper is able to ... a standing height. One of the missions of Ohio AgrAbility is to work with farmers with disabilities to ...