Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) has an up-to-date list of resources to help producers facing the possibility of wildfire in the spring and summer of 2024. The Alberta Wildfires page on the ABP Daily website features links to emergency alerts, wildfire emergency updates, Alberta Emergency Alert and the Alberta Wildfire Status Dashboard. It also includes links […] Read more
Producer resources available for wildfire season
Report examines farming women’s safety needs
Safety of children, stress over general safety a common experience for women
Farming women may need more support and programing to address their specific safety needs according to a recent study.
How to safely check your grain bins for spoilage
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canola Council of Canada has had reports of canola spoilage. There are three main ways to check grain bins and prevent it. Be careful and consider safety when climbing bins to probe grain and use appropriate safety equipment such as a harness.
Young children, seniors figure highly in ag deaths
Sobering data offered by farm safety advocates at annual meeting of Canadian Agricultural Safety Association
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s good and bad news on Canada’s farm injury front. Deaths on farms or related to farming practices dropped an average of 1.4 per cent annually from 2011 to 2020. However, there were 624 agriculture-related deaths in that period. Of those deaths, 26 were children ages one to four and 124 were people ages 70 […] Read more
Wildfire resources for producers
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Beef Producers has an updated list of resources for producers facing the threat of wildfires. It can be found at abpdaily.com — click on the Wildfire Resources link in the upper right-hand corner of the home page. The webpage includes numerous links, including ones for the Alberta Emergency Alert website and the Alberta Wildfire […] Read more
Alberta wildfire fighters prepare for hot, dry days ahead
Temperatures to approach 30 C next week
Reuters — An extended period of hot, dry weather that risks worsening wildfires in Alberta began on Friday, with special weather alerts in place across Western Canada and officials urging people to be vigilant. More than 100 wildfires have ignited across Alberta since last week, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate homes, farms […] Read more
Alberta fairs, auctions offer space for evacuated livestock
Central areas catch break with moisture, cooler weather; CN service resumes
Alberta’s ag societies and livestock auction marts are offering up pen space for producers forced to evacuate animals away from dozens of wildfires in the province’s northern and west-central regions. As of early Thursday evening, the province was tracking 76 active wildfires, of which 22 were listed as “out of control” and 17 as “being […] Read more
GRIM READING: Farms remain very dangerous workplaces
The ag industry ‘hasn’t adopted a culture of safety,’ says author of report on farm fatalities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting recently released its latest report with data on agriculture-related fatalities between 1990 and 2020, with particular focus on 2011 to 2020. CAIR is a national surveillance program funded by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association and co-ordinated by the Injury Prevention Centre at the University of Alberta. According to the latest CAIR […] Read more
The dangers of fatigue in the busy seasons on the farm
The consequences of a southern Alberta farm employee falling asleep last fall could have been much worse
Reading Time: 4 minutes Damaged equipment is bad enough for any farmer in the middle of harvest, but a co-owner of a southern Alberta farm says they could have lost much more. KCL Cattle Company lost thousands of dollars last fall when an employee crashed into a header after a long day in the field. The header was totalled, […] Read more
Include safety in your plans before you work alone this spring
Thinking ahead and identifying hazards can help avoid potentially life-threatening situations
Reading Time: 3 minutes In recognition of Canadian Agricultural Safety Week March 12-18, here’s a sobering safety fact: 50 per cent of farm safety incidents in Canada occur when the victim is working alone. The average farmer and rancher in Alberta spends a significant amount of time working alone. Some tasks are even designed to be done alone. But […] Read more
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