Scott Heiberger

Raising awareness and removing stigmas about rural mental health issues are occurring through various state and grass-root level efforts. Scott Heiberger of the National Farm Medicine Center discuses a campaign from last spring called "Farm Neighbors Care", involving different organizations in Wisconsin bringing treats to farmers ...

The National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety is providing new safety booklets in an attempt to lower the number of injuries and deaths of children each year on the farm. According to the organization, more young people have died this decade working in agriculture than all other industries combined ...

Maybe you use checklists when it comes to things around the farm that need to be done.  Or maybe you use checklists for your kids’ chores.  Or you might use a checklist when picking up a few things at the local store. Regardless of how and when you use them, the National Farm Medicine Center is encouraging you to add one more checklist; a farm safety checklist.   “You’l...

Maybe you use checklists when it comes to things around the farm that need to be done.  Or maybe you use checklists for your kids’ chores.  Or you might use a checklist when picking up a few things at the local store. Regardless of how and when you use them, the National Farm Medicine Center is encouraging you to add one more checklist; a farm safety checklist.   “You’ll be...

This is National Farm Safety Week.  Scott Heiberger of the National Farm Medicine Center said some stats are moving in the right direction.   "Over the last 15 years or so, the rates of injury among farm children have gone down, and that's important because it's not just the sheer numbers, because you might expect that, with fewer kids being on farms, but the actual rates of injures."