Agtegra Cooperative provides grain rescue training for workers in its many locations, as well as a close-up rescue drill exposure for medical students at the University of South Dakota. Agtegra and USD also are supporters of a new program that provides training and a “ditch kit” for rural people who help if someone is injured.
The University of Minnesota is leading the $220 million project called the Future of Advanced Agricultural Research in Minnesota or FAARM. The FAARM site is planned to be in Mower County, in conjunction with Riverland Community College at Austin.
Dan Reidenberg, executive director of Suicide Awareness Voices of Education and expert on suicide prevention, presented a webinar put on by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Minnesota Department of Health directed toward agricultural communities affected by suicide.
While a community in southeast Minnesota aches without its high school football, a hospital CEO in rural North Dakota worries what the future will bring.
A new CDC study shows an increase in drug overdose deaths during the first months of the pandemic, with rural South Dakota seeing a 50% spike in its average that reflects 31 more deaths.
OSHA has fined Smithfield Foods the "maximum allowed by law" for a single violation of failing to protect its employees at its Sioux Falls meatpacking plant from COVID-19. That fine: $13,494. Both Smithfield Foods and the union representing workers at the plant don't like OSHA's decision.
Smithfield Foods has dropped its fight to quash a subpoena from OSHA over reports related to the COVID-19 outbreak at its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The meatpacking giant said it had reached an agreement with OSHA to protect its employees' privacy.
