Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KANSAS, Ill. (WCIA) — K-12 students in one Central Illinois school learned how to save lives on Friday, and it all started with an ...

The Gearing-Up-4-Safety curriculum helps youth aged 14-19 meet federal training requirements for agricultural employment. Presented by Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural Sciences Education ...

“Like getting the rug pulled out from under us.” That’s how some farmers react when hearing about the FDA’s sudden and unexpected change in food safety requirements for the use of agricultural water ...

THE use of chemicals around the world is worsening. For one, much food for consumption is dependent on chemically produced ...

President Joe Biden is looking in another direction to steer agriculture’s boat. The key word here is biotechnology. And President Biden is all for it. In fact, he goes so far as to say it should be ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a long-awaited final rule imposing requirements on farmers for ensuring that agricultural water doesn't contaminate produce with dangerous ...

The America Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) announced on Sept. 22 that they have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding ...

The newest Agricultural Center is the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing at the University of Illinois Chicago. This week, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ...

The events, co-sponsored by L&I and the Governor's Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board, will feature special training on drug recognition in the workplace, irrigation and trenching hazards, ...

UC Davis' Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety has been awarded a federal grant to help tackle the leading cause of death and serious injury in American agriculture -- tractor-related ...

We’re still reeling from April’s garment-factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1,100 people, making the 112 fatalities of a clothing-factory fire in the same country five months earlier seem ...

Farmers across Jamaica rely on water to grow crops, but not all water is created equal. Irrigation water that comes from ...