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Program Area:

Day Camps

Our 1st place poster winner

Leah Baker, Paulding County

Our 2nd place poster winner

Claire Schroeder, Putnam County

Farm safety day camps provide youth an opportunity to learn about agricultural hazards and injury prevention. The mission of the camp program is to teach youth about rural dangers; however the campers do not have to be farm children to benefit from the educational sessions. Injuries from horses, livestock, ponds, lawn mowers and electricity can occur to anyone, not just farm kids. Campers learn in a fun, interactive way the consequences of poor judgement around power machinery, flowing grain, and livestock. Hands-on demonstrations enforce the safety messages to youth that they will never be able to overpower a machine, hold on during a tractor roll-over, or escape from flowing grain.

This year marks the 12th year of a state program that educates youth about farm dangers. To date, approximately 16,500 Ohio youth have attended sessions that focus on rural safety—everyone, including the adult volunteers, have fun by interacting with one another, all in an effort to be reminded of safety.

For more information about camps, please contact Kathy Henwood via email or at 614-292-0622.

Farm Safety Camp 2009 Locations:

 

Putnam County

           Date:             April 14 & 15

           Place:            Ruth Gerding Farm

           Contact:        Ruth Gerding

                                419-523-5608

                                rgerding@hotmail.com

 

Camp Palmer

 

           Date:             May 21, 2009

           Place:            4-H Camp Palmer

           Contact:        Bill Goodson

                                419-237-2247

 

Wood County

 

           Date:             May TBA

           Place:            Agriculture Incubator Foundation

           Contact:        David Little

                                419-833-6014

                                dlittle@eastwood.k12.oh.us

 

Licking County

 

           Date:            June 26, 2009

           Place:           Devine Farms

           Contact:       Lisa McCutcheon

                               740-670-5315

 

Monroe County

 

          Date:            September/ October

          Place:           Beallsville Elementary School

          Contact:       Bruce Zimmer

                              740-472-0810

                              zimmer2@postoffice.ag.ohio-state.edu

 

Shelby County

 

           Date:            TBA (Fall)

           Place:           Shelby County Fairgrounds

           Contact:       Joy Aufderhaar

                               937-498-7239

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Agricultural Safety and Health program at The Ohio State University in the Department of Food, Agricultral and Biological Engineering is a nationally recognized center of excellence for educational extension programming an agricultural safety and health research.


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