Growing Up on a Farm is Awesome as Long as Safety is a Priority

Growing up on a farm can be a great experience for children. ey grow up watching and working with their rst teachers – their parents –doing amazing things like turning miles of dirt into lush green elds of valuable crops and assisting farm animals as they give birth to another generation of genetically healthy o spring.

Farm kids aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get dirty, and they know how to get things done. Modern agriculture involves a great deal of science and the use of technology, and today’s farm youth learns much more than most people realize. ey also learn so many critically important life skills such as cooperation, responsibility, persistence, accountability, attention to detail, patience, and the value of hard work, just to name a few.

As a parent educator, I applaud farm parents because they do one of the most important jobs every parent needs to do: they spend a lot of time with their children, teaching and mentoring them, and giving them opportunities to learn those life skills through concrete experiences. As they say, how does a child spell love? T-I-M-E.

On the ip side, not all time spent with your children is of equal value, and in some situations, there may be safety concerns that outweigh the bene ts of that time spent together. According to the 2022 US Childhood Agricultural Injuries Factsheet published by the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, each day about 33 children are injured in agricultural related accidents and every three days a child dies from an agricultural related incident. e largest percentage of youth deaths involved driving/riding on tractors and all-terrain vehicles (47%), followed by contact with agricultural machinery (20%), and violent contact with animals or other humans (13%). Further, it is estimated that as much as 88% of agriculture related injuries and illnesses are not captured in this data because there is no centralized reporting or data collection of agricultural related injuries and fatalities.

Another NYS study focused on the age of youth that were involved in agricultural related accidents. is study revealed that 35% of the youth who were injured or died were considered too young, according to the Agricultural Youth Work Guidelines, to be engaged in the agricultural related tasks that led to the accidents. In this study, the leading cause of injuries/death was tractor run-overs and tractor overturns, again highlighting the danger posed by tractors. Other injuries were related to loading haybales, eld work with towed implements, and feeding calves.

With these statistics in mind, farmer parents and grandparents must ask themselves if it is worth the risk to allow younger children to ride along on that tractor. How old should a child be before they are allowed to operate a tractor, gator, skid steer, or ATV alone? What other agricultural related activities may pose a risk to teens and younger children? We know that children and youths are curious, smart, and can be great helpers around the farm. But we also know that those same kids lack experience, and they can be at times inattentive and easily distracted, they like to show-o , and they believe they are invincible – these are all characteristics of youth that make them more likely to make the mistakes that result in injuries and death. Let’s make protecting our children and youths on farms this year a priority.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: https://cultivatesafety.org/ https://www.nycamh.org/programs-and-services/farm-safetytrainings.php

To contact DeAnna, email Parentingcce@cornell.edu

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Protection of the Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church

100 Stanford Dr., Rochester, NY 14610 • 585-224-0554

Archpriest Gregory Naumenko, Rector • A ROCOR Parish

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Pastor Carin Farmer • 133 Genesee St., Avon • 226-2626

Sunday Worship 10:00am (July & August - 9:00am)

Children’s Sunday School during Worship (Sept.-May).

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Batavia Seventh-Day Adventist Church

101 Richmond Ave, Batavia, NY 14020 • (585) 563-5331

Pastor, Edgar De León

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