Farm health

Dairy West is putting defibrillators directly on dairy farms in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Utah after an Idaho farmer died from a sudden cardiac event and EMS took 34 minutes to reach a nearby farm.

Purdue University and Bayer announced the creation of the Coalition for Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture, a public-private partnership designed to help improve the soil health of farmland while also increasing food production for a growing population...

Health officials are urging rural Oregonians to consider getting a flu shot before influenza hits the region.  Dr. Katie Sharff, Chief of Infectious Disease for Kaiser Permanente, said American medical professionals can typically predict the flu season here by looking to our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.   “...

This is National Farm Safety and Health Week, a time to focus on both general safety and health matters on the farm or ranch but also specific topics from rural road safety, and anhydrous ammonia exposure. "If I would have completely ran out of breath, I don't know if I'd be standing here today ...