Adams County ISU Extension
For their project, Adams County ISU Extension will be promoting fire safety in their local community. Youth members will gather fire safety information and deliver these materials to farmers in the field. While they deliver the materials, they will also speak with farmers about fire safety and other farming topics. The goal is to bring fire awareness to farmers, and also close generational gaps between the students and their local farmers by building connections. To promote fire safety even further, youth members will present on the importance and impact of fire safety to the local Farm Bureau & Extension Council, as well as create a display for the county fair.
CAC Media Group
CAC Media Group will host their first ever Ladies Livestock Luncheon. This luncheon will focus on bringing together middle and high-school-aged girls involved in livestock production with women in professional roles in the community. The goal is to have professionals give brief presentations, engage the girls in a hands-on activity, and offer time at the end for questions and discussion. The topics to be discussed will include safe livestock handling practices and disease prevention, along with the promotion of women as viable livestock producers. The organizers at CAC media group want to make sure the next generation of women not only has the skills needed to handle livestock but also the confidence to sit at the table and be a part of the decision-making process.
Central Community FFA
Central Community FFA’s goal for this project is to improve the safety and health of the farmers by delivering them first aid kits. Included with the first aid kits, FFA members will also be making an informational flier about all the items in them and how to properly use them. We will also be giving them suggestions on where to put them to make it efficient to retrieve. First aid kits placed near the farmer will better aid them with minor injuries that happen to them.
Floyd County ISU Extension
The youth will provide safety and health resources and appreciation to local area farmers as a resource-filled 5-gallon bucket. This program will run during the 2024 harvest season and will utilize community volunteers and youth to distribute the buckets in support of local farmers in the community/county.
Franklin County ISU Extension
Franklin 4-H members will organize and present a farm safety program to youth and their parents/guardians following a little farmer day camp in May. The program will teach local farm families the basics of farm safety and work on identifying youth safety on the farm. There will also be a hearing protection demonstration, and each family will leave with a farm safety kit. 4-H members will research the topics, create farm safety kits, promote the event, and present the information.
Louisa County ISU Extension
Louisa County ISU Extension will host a farm safety day for elementary students. Students spend the day at the Louisa County Fairgrounds and move from station to station for interactive sessions that give them hands-on experiences from local professionals and high school peer mentors in each area of safety focus. A video will be created by Louisa 4-H County Council members and Louisa County Extension over the course of the day. The video will have what happened at each station. Each group will be assigned one safety topic to talk about what they learned at the end of the day for the video. The video will be posted via social media and websites with Extension, the partners leading the stations, and the participating schools.
MMCRU FFA
The goal of this project is to make young students aware of the dangers being on a farm can present, but also how they can take simple steps to make sure they are safe. We will have examples of large machinery parked so students can have a chance to sit in the seat and look where the blind spots are around the piece of equipment. MMCRU FFA will supply each student with a hi-vis safety vest that they can easily put on over whatever they are wearing. Students will then have the chance to also see how having a hi-vis vest can help to catch your attention from the seat and know where everyone is a little easier. This small station is intended to make students more aware of bystander safety. Students will be able to make the vest more personable by adding decorations with markers in an effort to get them excited to use it when needed.
Natalie Schroeder- Calamus Wheatland
Natalie will create a few minute-long fun video as part of her FFA Ag Communications SAE. The topic will be anhydrous awareness and will be shown to all of Calamus-Wheatland’s elementary school students. Videos will be shared eventually across the C-W FFA social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, and website to reach a broader audience. At the end of the video, elementary students will be quizzed, and one winner will receive a prize themed towards something with the video.
Southwest Valley FFA
Southwest Valley FFA wants to promote safety in agriculture by providing first aid kits for farmers to have easily accessible in their farm equipment. We also want to educate farmers of the risks and rewards of proper medical care after simple farm accidents. They plan to work with their school nurse, local healthcare professionals, and local 1st responders to determine the needs within 1st Aid kids for farmers to carry in their farm equipment. They will also research and share information on farm accidents and ways farmers can mitigate potential accidents on their farm.
Stampeding Clover 4-H
Stampeding Clover 4-H members plan to make posters to promote ATV safety and helmet usage at local events, including Muscatine County horse shows in June, July, and August. They will also highlight ATV safety and usage at the Muscatine County Fair, where the group has a standing misting station that draws in people. To increase engagement with the safety campaign, they will have a “helmet hair” photo/video contest with prizes.
Washington County ISU Extension
Washington County 4-H and ISU extension and outreach will continue their popular “Stay Safe, Take a Break” program, where students meet farmers in the field during harvest and remind them to take break and provide them with a resource bag. This year “Stay Safe, Take a Break” will focus on fire safety and distribute fire extinguishers to the farmers they interact with. Youth members will also create a display about the “Stay Safe, Take a Break” project for the county fair.