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What’s Up – for Nov. 5, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 5-8 – Manitoba Livestock Exposition, Brandon. For more info contact Karen Oliver at 204-726-3590 or visit www.brandonfairs.com. Nov. 6– Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op fall marketing meeting, noon, Smitty’s Family Restaurant, Steinbach. Agenda items include hog industry updates; sales, hog and feed grains outlook, animal welfare.
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What’s Up – for Oct. 29, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 1-3 – Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference, Greenwood Inn, 1715 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. Early-bird registration deadline Oct. 15. For more info call 204-423-2089 or visit www.manitobafarmwomensconference.ca. Nov. 1-4 – Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Marriott Ottawa, 100 Kent St., Ottawa. For more info visit www.cwfhb.org.
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‘Tis The Season — To Be Careful

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Iwas looking forward to my late-summer vacation with the same mix of anticipation and dread as my farmer friends look forward to harvest. There was a long list of outdoor jobs waiting for a few open days – provided the weather co-operated. Then, there was a plan to escape for a few days of camping
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Safety Record On Canadian Farms Improving

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Fewer farmers and their family members are being killed on Canadian farms, a new report says. It may be because farmers take safety more seriously nowadays. Fatal agricultural injury data from 1990 to 2005 recently released by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program (CAISP) show a small but steady decline in the number of agricultural
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Child Safety Is Priority, Says New Farm Safety Study

FARM CREDIT CANADA RELEASE Anew farm safety study says that although most Canadian primary producers believe farm safety is important (83 per cent), very few actually have a formal safety plan in place (15 per cent). Although producers report that safety is important, they may not practise all safety measures regularly. “Farm Credit Canada partnered
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Safety message tough sell

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For the province’s farm safety co-ordinator, throwing a Farm Safety and Health meeting once meant booking a hall, picking up dozens of doughnuts and a coffee urn, then presenting to a near empty room. Glen Blahey quickly learned not to take the low turnouts personally. Having a farm background himself, he knows that while most
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Sweet dreams promote safe farming

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When it comes to safe farming, getting plenty of sleep is part of the job. Get plenty of sleep for a safe farm. That was one of the messages given at the Farm Safety and Health seminar held in Winnipeg on Nov. 6 and 7. Marcel Hacault, executive director for Canadian Agricultural Safety Association said
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Written policy can enhance safety on farm

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Farmers should write out a policy statement and rules for safety, signing and dating the document, according to provincial farm safety co-ordinator, Glen Blahey. Using a good dose of “down on the farm” stories of his own to help him deliver his safety message to farmers, Blahey encourages producers to think forward in terms of

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