Anna Hieronimus 2015-11-12 03:38:53
Learning Farm Safety from the Pros
Perfect weather welcomed nearly 200 third-grade students to the CHS Innovation Trials® at CHS Marshall for the second annual Friends of the Farm safety event near Marshall, Minn.
CHS Agronomist Jerry Beck and other CHS employees hosted the workshop to promote farm safety to youth.
The students visited stations covering safety with large equipment (handled by C&B Equipment), pets and other animals (Verlinde Farms, Fultz Farms and Brockway Brown Veterinary Clinic), fi re (Tracy Fire Department), propane (CHS), electricity (Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative) and chemicals. In addition, the Murray County corn and soybean growers’ associations conducted an auger and grain bin safety awareness demonstration.
“Both farm and non-farm students were interested in lessons taught at the workshop,” Beck says. “The outpouring of community support for this event to help keep our kids safe has been overwhelming.”
The students climbed into large farm equipment, practiced making 911 calls and tested how many pounds they could pull in a grain bin engulfment simulator.
Each student was given a CHS backpack, a Friends of the Farm t-shirt, and activity pages and crayons.
Agriculture advocate and sixthgeneration rancher and farmer Trent Loos wrapped up the day by telling students how he travels the country helping consumers learn about their food sources.
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