ORD, NEB. – The Central Nebraska Farm Safety 4 Just kids has announced their annual Progressive Agriculture Safety Day being planned for Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at the Valley County Fairgrounds.
Registration forms have been sent to area schools and parents should look for the forms being sent home with their children. Forms are also available to local UNL Extension Office, local NRCS offices and some area businesses.
This year’s registration fee is free thanks to a generous donation from Cargill to cover each child attending the safety day.
Early registration is encouraged with anticipated interest in attendance will be very high this year. There are on 200 spots for youth to register.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND REGISTRATIONS TO THE ADDRESS ON THE FORM, DO NOT RETURN THEM TO THE SCHOOL.
Bev Smedra, Co-Coordinator with Kayla Hendricks and the USDA Office in Ord, Nebraska talks about why farm safety for kids is so important.
Each participant will receive a free lunch courtesy of Green Plains LLC, a take-home goodie bag, and a safety day t-shirt.
Smedra and her co-coordinator is happy to announce that many generous donations have been received and will allow each participant to receive a goodie bag full of fun and useful safety and health items for themselves and their families to use this summer.
Youth attending this years farm safety day will participate in interactive sessions that reinforce the importance of taking responsibility for their own safety, respecting parent’s safety rules and sharing safety tips with their families and friends.
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Here are the generous sponsors for this years Farm Safety 4 Just Kids: Cargill Inc, Green Plains LLC, Zangger Popcorn Employees, Farm Credit Services of America, Dan & Luella Spilinek, Nationwide Life Insurance, AgPro Insurance, Great Western Bank, Ericson State Bank, Staab Welding, Wells Air Service, Henderson Bank – Greeley, Citizens Bank & Trust Co., First National Bank, Thoene Farm Service Inc., Union Bank & Trust – Taylor, Ashton Feed & Grain, Simps Repair, Wray State farm Insurance, Trotter Inc. -Arcadia, Ord Veterinary Clinic, Shelter Insurance, Loup Valley Redi-Mix, Burwell Feeders, Knight LLC, Trotters Whoa & Go – Ord, Ord Grocery Kart, Howard County Farm Bureau, Good Life Pharmacy and Anderson’s Pharmacy.
Yearly Memberships to the Central Nebraska Farm Safety 4 Just Kids Chapter (FS4JK) and extra donations have provided the funding to plan a top-quality safety day program every year since 1996. Current chapter members and various donors include: Agland Electric and Irrigation, AK Creations, American Family Insurance/Justin Thompson Agency, American Legion #251-Arcadia, Bossen Livestock, Brehm Drug Inc., Dr. Terri Bridgman, Burwell Veterinary Hospital, Central Area Insurance Inc. Greeley, Christensen Insurance-Triangle B, Citizens State Bank-Spalding, Cornerstone Bank-North Loup, Country Partners Coop-Gothenburg, Keenan & Kristin Dobesh, Honey Lou Fauss, Dave & Christie Ference, Greenland Construction, Homestead Bank-St. Paul, Howard-Greeley RPPD, Amy & Lee Klein, Larry & Patty Kokes, Kuszak Photography, Loop Agency, Loup City Propane, Loup Valley RPPD, Maverick Fertilizer, Niewohner Entities, Ord Memorial Chapel, Peters Funeral Home, Petska Backhoe & Plumbing, Professional Eyecare, Riverside Fertilizer, Sack Lumber, Scheef Insurance LLC, Seed Solutions, Severson, Lammers & Abel, Sikyta Law Office, Springdale Title & Realty Inc., Emily Stander, State Bank of Scotia, Stowell, Geweke & Piskorski, Titan Machinery, Trotters Service-Loup City, Valley County Health System, Lindsey Waltman, and Warner Body Shop.
This summer, safety days such as the one being hosted by the Central NE Farm Safety 4 Just Kids chapter in Ord, are being held in many locations in the United States and Canada to teach rural children how to prevent injuries and reduce the risk of farm incidents. International, and state sponsors of the Progressive Agriculture Foundation hope participants will maintain a healthy respect for farm hazards throughout their lives, and that, ultimately, the numbers of deaths and injuries among rural children will decline.
Progressive Agriculture Safety Days are sponsored nationally by: Bunge North America, Nutrien, TransCanada Corporation, CHS, John Deere, Farm Credit, Bayer, Enbridge Inc., Alliance Pipeline, Farm Progress, DTN/The Progressive Farmer, RFD-TV, KGLO-Alpha Media, Hoard’s Dairyman, Successful Farming & Meredith Agrimedia, Country Folks & Lee Publications, Glacier FarmMedia, Ontario Farmer (Canada), Kubota Tractor Corporation, BASF Canada, Betaseed, Inc., Rain and Hail Insurance, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, GROWMARK, Wilbur-Ellis, Colle + McVoy, Asmark Institute, Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, Polaris, Alabama Power Foundation & Company, MacDon Industries Ltd, Dow AgroServices, GKN Walterscheid, Inc., AgCountry Farm Credit, National Crop Insurance Services, The Caring Foundation of BCBS of Alabama, National Shooting Sports Foundation, U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc., Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa, Unverferth Manufacturing Co. Inc., IMT Insurance Company, Somerset Seed and Sod, Frontier Farm Credit, Arbor Bank, IntelliFarms, The Andersons Inc., Association of Equipment Manufacturers, The Brandt Foundation, Farmers National Company, AKE Safety Equipment, Krone North America Inc., DuPont Pioneer, Silveus Crop Insurance, and SIRE LLC.
