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Health and Safety Issues in Agriculture: Is there a Way Out?

Agriculture forms the backbone of most economies and is a chief driver of economic growth. In 2013 the agricultural sector grew by a spectacular 16.4% and aided considerably in improving the country’s ...

Apr. 30, 2014

By Holloway Houston, Inc.

OSU Agriculture Safety and Health Professionals Offer Grain Handling Safety Tips

With grain harvest well underway statewide thanks to favorable weather conditions throughout the region, growers are reminded that taking extra precautions when handling grain can lessen the potential for injury. When working around grain storage facilities, incidents such as slips, trips, falls, severe trauma injuries, entanglement or engulfment can happen in a fraction of a second, said Kent ...

Oct. 8, 2015

By Ohio State University

US Labor Department`s OSHA working with agriculture community to promote safety education during Farm Safety Week, Sept. 15-22

The agriculture sector accounted for 475 deaths in 2012. With a fatality rate of 21.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, agriculture recorded the highest fatality rate of any industry sector. Additionally, 48,300 injuries were recorded in 2011, the last year for which statistics are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This sector employs more than 2 million people in the United ...

Sep. 16, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Alabama`s Wayne Farms poultry plant cited for exposing workers to musculoskeletal, other repeat, serious safety and health hazards

Wayne Farms LLC, which makes products under brand names Dutch Quality House and Platinum Harvest, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to dangerous machinery, ...

Oct. 29, 2014

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

EPA Ensures Company Discloses Pesticide Hazards

Today, a Milwaukee pesticide manufacturer paid a $738,000 civil penalty to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for advertising “Rozol Prairie Dog Bait” (Rozol PD) without identifying it as a “restricted use” pesticide, and for making unapproved claims about the pesticide, in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This is the ...

Jun. 6, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EUR 28m EU support for the promotion of agricultural products

The European Commission has approved 16 programmes in 12 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union. The total budget of the programmes running between one and three years is € 62.1 million, of which the EU will ...

Jul. 24, 2009

By European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development DG

Cenex harvest states, inc. To pay EPA penalty and conduct safety workshops

Minnesota-based Cenex Harvest States (CHS), Inc has agreed to settle a series of alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its facilities in Garretson, SD for $35,200. This includes a $15,500 civil penalty and $19,700 which will be used to conduct several agricultural ammonia safety workshops in multiple states including North and South Dakota. These workshops will include information on how the ...

Mar. 29, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Countries chart a two-year course on food, nutrition and agriculture across Europe and Central Asia

Recognizing the coexistence in the region of large-scale mechanized farming alongside more traditional family farms, the FAO Regional Conference held in Bucharest this week endorsed two over-arching initiatives for FAO to pursue in 2014-15: strengthening family farms and smallholder agriculture, and improving agri-food trade and regional trade integration. Other major areas of work in the region ...

Apr. 4, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Worker loses toes in Waterville, Kansas, grain bin; incident due to safety violations

He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors ...

Feb. 24, 2015

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Edinburg, Texas, corn mill cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA after a worker was engulfed and fatally asphyxiated in a grain bin silo

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Azteca Milling LP in Edinburg for seven serious safety violations following a February incident when a worker inside a grain silo, attempting to move clumped corn byproducts, was engulfed, asphyxiated and then died. "The tragedy was preventable. The employer should have known that entering grain bins is ...

Aug. 21, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

New Worker Protection Rules Impact Farm, Greenhouse Workers

Owners of farms, forests, nurseries and greenhouses that use pesticides in agricultural plant production will have to implement additional safeguards for their pesticide handlers and agricultural workers under a revision to the Worker Protection Standard. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the new rules in the Federal Register Nov. 2. Compliance with most of the new rules will be ...

Nov. 12, 2015

By Ohio State University

USDA Announces New Tool to Monitor Dams, Keep Communities Safe

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability ofDamWatch, a new web-based application that provides real-time monitoring of rainfall, snowmelt, stream ...

Jun. 23, 2015

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc. Completes $3.5 Million Financing

New investors to contribute significant expertise in the agriculture and wastewater utility sectors. BOURNE, Mass., - Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc. (EOSi) announced today that it had completed a $3.5 million venture capital financing to support the company"s growth. Existing investor Stuart Mill Venture Partners was joined by new institutional investors MidPoint Food & ...

Jul. 7, 2010

By Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc

EPA Awards Almost Half a Million in Funding to Three Universities for Projects to Reduce Pesticide Risk

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced agricultural grants for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices to reduce the use of potentially harmful pesticides and lower risk to bees all while controlling pests and saving money. “These collaborative projects can provide innovative solutions to reduce pesticide risks to pollinators and crops,” said James Jones, ...

Jan. 8, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

TUESDAY: U.S. EPA Administrator and UFW President will Tour Lodi, Calif. Farm, Discuss Enhanced Worker Protection Standard with Farm Workers

On Tuesday, October 20th, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and United Farm Workers of America (UFW) president, Arturo Rodriguez, will participate in a farm tour and a meeting with farm workers at Pacific Triple E Farm to discuss stronger protections for agricultural workers under the recently updated Worker Protection Standard (WPS). EPA’s final rule, announced in September, provides ...

Oct. 19, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

NASDAQ OMX adds dow to global sustainability 50 index

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) today announced it had been added to the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index (Nasdaq:QCRD) for the first time. "Sustainability has been firmly planted in Dow"s corporate strategy for many years," said Howard Ungerleider, Dow"s vice president of Investor Relations. "The more companies and investors recognize the importance of sustainability leadership ...

Jun. 17, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

USDA Invests Nearly $118 Million to Support America`s Speciality Crop Producers

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced nearly $118 million in grants to strengthen markets for specialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops. The grants were authorized through the 2014 Farm Bill as part of an effort to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops and provide resources to strengthen American agriculture. The Secretary made the ...

Oct. 2, 2014

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

British Crop Production Council challenges Green Alliance`s opposition to glyphosate and GM crops

Dr Colin Ruscoe, chairman of BCPC, has contacted Keith Taylor, Green MEP for SE England, to challenge the 'Green Alliance of 46 MEPs opposed to renewal of glyphosate licences. The EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed continues to be deadlocked over renewal of licences for ...

May 23, 2016

Edible insects inch one step closer

Farming insects on a large scale is no more of a biological or chemical hazard than other livestock farming, says a report by a European food safety body. The report, which looks at the potential of insects as food or animal feed, says the microbiological, chemical and ...

Oct. 27, 2015

By SciDev.Net

Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides

Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to ...

Nov. 25, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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