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April 27, 2023Jefferson City, Mo. |  By: Jeremy Werner

Farm safety curriculum offered for young MO farmers

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Show-Me Farm Safety Committee is partnering with Purdue University to bring the “Gearing Up for Safety: Production Agriculture Training for Youth” curriculum to Missouri.

The curriculum is designed to provide young Missourians with the knowledge and skills they need to safely work on farms.

The curriculum is designed to provide an instructor with the necessary tools for organizing and conducting a production agriculture safety training program for youth.

The curriculum includes 15 interactive and engaging PowerPoint lessons with notes to help the instructor through the content.

In addition to the PowerPoints, each lesson has self-study videos, activity sheets, review questions, quizzes and teaching aids.

By completing the “Gearing Up for Safety” training, 14- and 15-year-olds will be eligible to be certified for employment operating tractors and some hazardous machinery. For more information, visit farmsafety.mo.gov.