... through the USDA at the National Rural Development Partnership. And before we start this session on Farm Safety, I would like to sort of explain that this session will be taped. So, I know that Ms. Adams would really like an interactive session, but we need to make sure that when people speak, its into the microphone, and I can bring the microphone around so that its all recorded. But, other than that, without any other further ado, I would like to introduce Marilyn Adams, who is an author and a woman of many talents, but I'll let her sort of speak about that. So, Ms. Adams.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you.

Gee, its going to be difficult for me to stay tied to this microphone.

Marilyn Adams, and I'm President and Founder of Farm Safety for Just Kids. Our international office is in Iowa, about 25 miles west of Des Moines. And I started farm safety for just kids just one year after my own son was killed in a farming incident. He was helping his dad at harvest time, and got up in a gravity flow wagon, some of you may not know what a gravity flow wagon is, but as we review some clips from video and different things, you'll see some of the equipment that I'm talking about. Keith got up in a load of corn while it was unloading. And was pulled under like quicksand. So, within 24 hours, he was on life support for about 24 hours. And, so, we lost him. As a mother and a wife and a farmer, you probably understand the energy, the excess energy that I got. That first year I was really dealing with a lot of stressful grief. And, one thing led to another, and I founded Farm Safety for Just Kids. And, this was just an Iowa project. My oldest daughter came to me, she wanted to do a speech for FFA, Future Farmers of America. And, she wanted to talk about how Keith gave his life to farming. But, she said, "Mom, you've got to help me find some information about gravity flow wagons." And, so, I started searching and searching and it was really difficult to find any information. We finally came across a study that was done by Perdue University in Indiana. And it said utilize the youth, make big cows to put on the farm equipment, particularly the wagons and grain bins. And, seek year around media coverage and do campaigns similar to the no rider campaigns, and things like that. These were things that we as a family could provide some leadership and do with the young people in Iowa. And, the media picked up. We've got an Iowa radio person here today, WHO was probably one of the first radio interviews I did. The media really picked up on what we were doing as a family. Out of dealing with the grief, of the loss of our son. And some of these same media people had come to the incident when it happened. They were there to follow through with helping me prevent injuries, and so I really attribute a lot of my success to the media because they've continued to keep this a feature story. They've continued to focus on kids and farm safety. And, we've continued to build those relationships with those media people. So, when you are doing your programs, make sure that you include the media. Its very very important that you reach out to more people than what you have in your audience. We're going to have hundreds of thousands of listeners about farm safety and the Women's International Conference, but there's, you know, even though we have a select group here, we're going to have multitudes of people hearing about what we've done at this conference. And what we've accomplished and the information we have exchanged. And so, media is a real key to your farm safety programs, and in any program that you're doing. Being honest and sincere and having it come from your heart is very very important. And, yes, we need the research, we need the pie charts of how many incidents that there are, but we also need those people in communities that really speak from their heart and believe in what they're doing. And, so, you know, I started Farm Safety for Just Kids 11 years ago, and now we have chapters in 26 different states around the United States, we have chapters in two providences in Canada. And work to exchange information from people from Sweden and Finland and Norway, and different countries, too. I understand there's some outstanding programs that some of you have brought with you, we have Farm Safety from Canada, Farm Safety from Australia, focusing on the kids. Any other countries that anybody else has brought anything from another country? Okay. Later, I'm going to ask both of you to share, last thing in the world I wanted to do when I got here was to stand up here and lecture for an hour and half.

So, I really expect to be able to call on the audience and get some participation from you folks. Because I don't have all the answers. I still have a lot of unanswered questions about farm safety. I still wonder why kids are still dying on the farm. That bothers me. In the United States, when I first started Farm Safety for Just Kids, there were 300 kids killed every year. And, now there's about 104. But you know there's 52 weeks in a year. And, so, we're still averaging two a week. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable. It just, it can't be. You know, my son was one of those almost 12 years ago, and if all of the efforts that have been put into farm safety in the last 10 or 12 years would have gone toward saving my son's one and only life, it would have been well worth it. And I think each individual family, each individual community, that has lost a child would feel the same way. And, yes, there are other issues that are bigger than 104 kids being killed every year. But, when you stop and think about those families and the efforts that we can put forth to prevent those injuries and prevent those fatalities from happening, then it's well worth it. When you bring it down to reality.

One of things that we do at Farm Safety for Just Kids, is we seek out other materials, like you've brought with you today, to see what will work in different communities. And we also produce materials. A brought a few videos with me today, and by the way, every tool that I use when I'm here, I'm going to be giving away as a door prize. So, when we watch a part of this first video, know that somebody in the audience is going to take this home with them. If you can't use the video, because your equipment won't allow you to do that, please give it to someone that can use it. But, if you'll let this one roll, we'll show just a one fun way that you can do farm safety.

Video is shown by Ms. Adams.

This is a skit that you can do in your own community. And, we do have the theme song on cassette. And then we have the video to teach you, or the kids, or whoever's going to present, how to do this program. And then we also have a written script for dialogue back and forth between the crow and the scarecrow. But, the reason I wanted to share this with you is because you can also write your own dialogue to go along with your own farming practices. You may not have the same practices that we have in the video, and so, but you could still use this as an example, and you could still use these materials. And so, I, when we get that kicked out, then we'll give that as a door prize along with the rest of this package. Let's see. Okay. Is there anyone here that would have interest in having this package to take home with them? Okay, we have one, two, three, four, five. Do any of you have a hole in your stocking? If you have a hole in your stocking and you show it to the rest of us. You do? Okay. She gets it. Here's the rest of it. Okay.

PARTICIPANT: Thank you very much.

MS. ADAMS: You're welcome. Please put that to good use.

PARTICIPANT: Oh, I will.

MS. ADAMS: And, now see she gets to see the rest of it. When we get all finished, we do have some packets of information to hand out to you, and there's a catalog in there if you care to purchase that.

ARTICIPANT: Not audible.

MS. ADAMS: That would be a real good one. I'll tell you what, I don't think that's a brand new package, I don't think its actually in the catalog yet, but if you, if you write on there the Farm Safety Skit, then our, our order department will just bill you for it. It's, I think it's $15.00. It's not very high cost. But, I didn't think to bring that cost with me, but I sure wanted to share it with you, it's brand new. And we're always developing something new and something fun that people can do. I have found, you know, with my background in being church youth group leader and Sunday school teacher, and those types of things, color is an excitement and fun is very important, and goes a long way. And, the adults can learn from the same materials that we produce for the children. And, we can all have fun and relax and enjoy that. And, so, please know that these are just ideas that I want to share with you. We have another video here. We're just going to show a brief portion of this one, too. This one is called the Safety Net Video. And, I'll just go ahead and talk while she gets it ready. But, this will, this one actually focuses on the fifth grade audience. And, the only adult that is in this video is a zany scientist, the rest of it is all kids. And, we have a lot of fun with this one, and its a very very good teaching tool. It's 15 minutes, total. And, so, it's one that you can use, you don't have to perform anything, you just use this one as a learning tool.

Video is shown by Ms. Adams.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. That's just about half of that video. And it addresses several different issues. But, I'd kind of like to give this one away, too. Because I don't want to take anything back home with me. Let's see. Who has a fifth grade son or grandson?

PARTICIPANT: Grandson.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. Can you use this one?

PARTICIPANT: Not audible.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. Let's give it to her. Thank you.

Since I have, you know I had two daughters and my son, that was killed on the farm. Since I have children, and have always been inspired by working with them in a leadership roll, it became very obvious to me that we needed, after we did this video, we needed something to go along with that. And there's a green booklet in one of these packages. Let's see. I've got it up here. I'll find it myself. Sorry about that. We have a walk-about book, that also address that fifth grade audience. And, it's designed so that kids will go out and look for hazards, and for this fifth grade audience, again, to go out and look for the hazards and find those and then mark them, and maybe even make a list and prioritize that list, so the families can fix things.

Now, I'm not up here to just do a big sales pitch. I just want to show you what we have available, so you know there are a lot tools out there. There just wasn't anything when I started. There wasn't very many things at all. This book is talking about teaming up of farm safety walk about for the kids. And, it's, you know, there's places in here where they can make lists of things that they find, difference types of hazards. There's yard safety, tractor safety, what to do if you're the first one the scene of an accident, livestock safety, machinery checklists, so, there's all kinds of fun things in this little booklet, that I think someone could probably use. And along with this one, there's two programs here. This is a leaders guide for, if you're going to do a safety day camp for the little kids. The four to seven year olds. And, so, I'm, I also have a little coloring book here, an activity book. So, I'm wondering, is there anyone in the audience that would have an interest in doing a program for the four to seven year olds, a day camp for the four to seven year olds.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. Yes, I have a catalog that has all of this stuff that you can order, and it'll be in this information packet. But, for right now, I wanted to show you what we have and give you the opportunity, somebody have a copy of the different things that we have. First of all, I guess I got it kind of out of order. The leaders guide for the four to seven year old curriculum, those of you that have an interest in having this, if you would raise your hand, and then, we'll decide. Is your birthday in September?

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: Only if you have a hole in your stocking and it's above your knee.

Okay. For this one, is your birthday in January?

PARTICIPANT: Yes.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. The Farm Safety Activity book is for the younger kids and it features, Watch It and Cautious the Crow. And, it's got a lot of fun things for the elementary kids. So, is there anyone who have an interest in having this little booklet? Do you have a child or grandchild that is between 5 and 7?

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. That's kind of a fun way to show you some things that we have and I don't have to take them all back home with me.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: In the catalog, we have them so you can order them individually and select whatever you would like to have. For the chapters, we put together an entire kit in this barn box and give each one of our chapters a barn box of materials when they first start. And it's samples of materials, and then as we develop new ones, we send new pieces out to all of the chapters. So, we do it both ways. But as far as just placing an order, we have those in the catalog.

In the United States the farm is a place where children live, work and play. And I think we're seeing that all over the world. It's a little different than the other industries. Most other industries we don't have the children involved. But, on the farm we do. And, so that, in itself, poses a hazard. The other issue that I like to bring to mind, because this is the way it has been with my family, and I think from what I hear from all of the other farmers, its this way world-wide, our farm kids are very responsible young people. We're extremely responsible business people on the farm, and we raise responsible kids. That poses a hazard, because they really want to get involved. And we want them to be involved. And, nothing pleased me anymore than seeing Keith go off with his dad to do something. I liked seeing the bonding. And they enjoyed that, and so, there's a gleam in everybody eye when the whole family is involved. So, how do we ask people to change traditions? You know, who am I to stand up here, on a pedestal, and say you shouldn't have an extra rider on a tractor. Well, it's tough. And, its really hard to make that change. But, generation at a time, I think we're going to see that change happen. We are seeing fewer extra riders on tractors. We're seeing more training. We're seeing more people get involved with community programs. A lot more education, a lot more media. And, the changes are happening. I think you have good attendance at your programs, and we do, too. And the kids really like Giddy Go Anna in the schools. And, so, I think we're headed in the right direction. But, I'm probably preaching to the choir, if you will, here today, because we're all here to learn from each other. But, if we can exchange some ideas, and if I don't have to just talk the whole time that I'm here, it'll help. And, if we can continue to do the networking after we leave today, I think if we can talk to each other through e-mail and share programs and when we have something new come up, make sure that we're on each others mailing list to get that information.

I'm wondering, is tractors and machinery the leading cause of death in all countries?

PARTICIPANT: Drownings.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: And where do you live?

PARTICIPANT: In Australia.

MS. ADAMS: In Australia.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: I just thought of something, we're supposed to be using the mike to get this all recorded, and I'm just engrossed in what you're saying here.

And let me just recap that just a little bit since I didn't have you come up to the mike. But, she said that we have, that they have farm safety video in every school in the country, and that amazes me. I haven't heard of that before.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: And somehow, we're going to have to get this recaptured on this tape. I apologize for not doing this right. But we're going to have to pass this mike around. I'm going to do a better job, here. But, this would be a good time. I'll tell you what we could do. If we could have you come up and say a few words. If you could come up here, and then this would be a good time to share information. And, we'll just kind of do this one at a time. And, if we could get you on this recorder. I'm sorry.

PARTICIPANT: You want to hear me again.

MS. ADAMS: Sure. Sure they do. I do, too.

PARTICIPANT: I'm from Ireland, and, in farm safety, the largest farm accidents will be farm machinery. And, the reason will be that in the past 15 to 20 years the size of machinery has gotten much bigger. And, I suppose, being children being as natural as their, as their mommies and their daddies want to be driving the biggest machine. But, in driving that they do not have to have a driving license to drive any machine, any farm machinery, unless they're driving it on the road. But a lot of accidents, as you all know, happen inside the farm gate. And, our, within the farm or in the field or in the farmyard, and for that reason that the training has to be approached and one way that we've approached the training is that our association was involved in the making of a video on farm safety. Well, two different videos, one for younger children and one for teenagers. But the one for younger children has been put into the schools, and into every single nations school in our country. But, my fear would be is that it wouldn't always, that doesn't mean that that's going to be that everybody's going to see it. And, it's the broader rural population that needs to see it as well. I would have gone to my own school and I would say have you got the video? And they'd say I haven't. We must. We must. And I would say why won't you play it. If you want, I'll come in. But, like everybody's not going to be able to do that in every school. Particularly in the rural schools. Now, in all rural schools, like the very very center schools, they don't have them. But, like every school that has a rural population or small urban towns that have farming people, they have a copy of it. Have I said everything there? Enough? Enough said?

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

PARTICIPANT: Last year, our farm relief, our farm relief serves us. And initiated a training service. Right. And where they would train and do a one day training course for children between 14 and 16 years of age. And the reason of between 14 and 16, was to do with insurance. Totally had to do with insurance. And, the, that's the insurance body would sponsor the insurance of that person to do it. And it's only for one day, but it gives them an introduction to it. A parent must come with the child to do that day. And they, they they actually carry out the day and usually at a local, someplace that has space, right? The farm relief services supply the tractors and the insurance company insures the people. And, they actually work it, there wouldn't be very many insuring bodies in our country. And a lot people would actually be insured with that body anyway. And they would just extend their insurance to cover the child doing the course as well. And they would go through farm practices with an, actual good driving practices with the children. And, then they would also, and, the hope would be that if the parents there as well, that they could hopefully recap and become more farm safety. I think its a good initiative for just, to carry it, it's not compulsory, it's not being done by everybody, but it's offered. And, we've been promotion it within our association.

PARTICIPANT: So, it's not mandated.

PARTICIPANT: It's not mandated, but we be hoping that eventually that tractor driving should be should be more should be more, not regulated, but it's it's it's just a, just if you feel like doing it. Not if you that you have to do it.

MS. ADAMS: And what is your name, please?

PARTICIPANT: Betty Murphy.

MS. ADAMS: Who uses the video for the teenagers? Where does that play?

PARTICIPANT: The video for the teenagers was prepared at the same time as the other video. And that's used at, it's used at courses for young people when they're going into farming, they do, they have to do a certificate in farming. And, in the certificate in farming course, they have to do a section on farm safety. And, that would be used in their course. It's completely different. It's completely different, with that teenager. And the day that they would do their farm, the tractor driving course, they would be showing the farm safety video as well. For them. When they do --

MS. ADAMS: That certificate part of their educational program or part of the insurance initiative?

PARTICIPANT: The educational program will be part of becoming established within the farm. In starting up farming. And, when they have less school, they do a certificate in farming, which will be agricultural based. It will be done at local, in their local, in their local level by agriculture - by our training agency. And, and part which will just be farm safety.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you. When the educational program is sponsored by the insurance company, who delivers it? The insurance companies or another organization?

PARTICIPANT: The farm, the tractor driving course is actually delivered by the farm relief services. As they have good operators and they have operators that are trained in farm safety. And, and they are, they are actually, actually the farm relief services have offered a new service this year for all farmers. And where they will help them with their farm safety statement. In our country, and as part, I don't want to be going to far, I don't want to be taking up all your time. In our country, you have to fill out a farm safety statement, as to things that need to be looked at in your farm. And, like the lady said earlier about a child as a member of the workplace, that changes your farm safety statement at all times. And what the, our, our farm relief services are offering at the moment, is that they will through your farm safety with you and offer a service, so that you will fill out your farm safety statement and become more aware of farm safety.

So, so they're going in the right direction, but it's not mandatory, and it's not, it's not, it's not regulated yet. But hopefully, it will eventually come to the stage that you will have everybody.

MS. ADAMS: Okay. Thank you. Since you're already half way up here, can we hear from Canada next?

INTERPRETER: We'll see how this dialogue goes, here.

Ja'Zinzia comes from Quebec. And, they have developed two different farm safety programs. For the children from 6 to 12 years old. There first approach is to be on-site in the farm setting, bringing together about 20 children, ages 6 to 12, and materials have been developed, a program guide. When together like in a circle and on the farm and starting out by asking them what are there jobs on the farm. The full program is about two hours and a half. For after those first talking part on what their roles and responsibilities are, moving in to working with the farm machinery. The older children with the tractor and the younger ones with lawn mowers. Large lawn mowers. To identify the dangerous parts of the equipment. The materials developed come with large posters, these are just representations of them. And they show some of the hazards. The second part of the program is firemen, who are invited to come and talk about fire safety. So, while the fireman takes over with the older children, and Ja'Zinzia explained even setting fires. Showing them how to use machinery to put out the fires. The younger children will take a tour of the farm with the director of the program. At the end of the week she's going to be speaking English. And then switching through, and in the stables, of course that was going through with all of the large animals and the milking equipment, and of the machinery. So, interspersed with posters that are subject matter specific and have drawings of safety hazards and dad and children talking and interacting on what is safety, what's safe practices, and what's not. The children's activity coloring book that they take home with them, has copies of those same posters, so they can review them at home with the family. That's one activity that's on the farm. Another approach has been taken. The second one, activity in the schools is more targeted to people in the ridges and their cities. At school with the slide show. It's an activity book connected with that, too, to take home. Ja'Zinzia explained to me, that these materials were developed as one of five points on a strategic plan developed by the Federation of Farm Women. There are 14. This is part of a union within the larger farm union that all the farmers belong to. There are 14 areas in Quebec that have participated in this strategic planing. It was two of the areas that helped developed this bonjo for the farm women in Quebec, which come in for this school version. Any questions?

For more information, all the materials were developed in both French and English. And, Carmen is passing out some brochures, and I have phone numbers, if anyone's interested in finding out more about these programs. Because the nature of using the pictures in particular, the first program could be adapted to any community, what areas, certainly the farm equipment.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you. Thank you both.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: Sure. You want to come up to the mike?

PARTICIPANT: First of all, I apologize because I did not know I was going to be in the session. I could have brought some samples and some giveaways.

I am with the Women's Institutes in Alberta. And, locally we decided to try a farm safety day for kids. And we targeted the 6 to 14 year olds, which was a large range. It was a hands on interactive day. We divided the kids up by age group, and they went around to various stations. We had buy in from the community. They supported us with money. They supported us with equipment, just whatever they could do for us. In fact, we ended up with a surplus of money, which that doesn't happen very often. We also had a buy in of the parents who were the group leaders and the children went around to each of the stations. This happened a year ago in August. We are still getting very positive feedback from this, and we're trying to promote it in various other areas in our province. And we are offering the seed money that we had left over to other groups. So, we are hoping that it's going to take off and by next year that we'll have several going across the province. A couple of other things that our Women's Institute did, we are publishing a series of books. The first one is already out. It is called Tractor Trouble. And if anybody is interested in it, I can give you, if you come and see me later, I will give you my card and you can contact me. I'll get you some prices and where to get it from. And the other thing that we did was a CD-ROM. It's called Lost on the Farm. And its about Cyber Sam. And Cyber Sam goes around and does various different things on the farm and those are not for sale. And that's really too bad. And that was a problem between some of our sponsors. We worked with Alberta Agriculture Farm Safety Department and TransAlt Utilities and Novell Corporation. And because we have a two, a large corporations, there was just some problems with selling it. However, it's been distributed to all the schools in Alberta. And, every Women's Institutes group in Canada has a copy. I'm not sure whether there's any more left. If there is, I am sure that we can probably get them out. I would like to see one to go to Ireland. To see what is out there. Yes. And with our, with our farm safety day program that my local did, we did incorporate some of Maryland's information. We used some of your books. They came to us by another group. And we're trying to sort of collect all the information that's out there. Because it's really no sense in reinventing the wheel. I think everyone of us are saying that here today.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you. I think we need to get our names and addresses and phone numbers down so, if we could get this passed around. I don't know if I -- I wrote at the top, I hope I allowed enough room, if not, change the format for me. As you pass it around. That's really quite interesting. Is there anybody else from Canada that wants to add to this program?

Okay. How about Australia? Now one out of the 140 people. Okay. Here we go. Australia.

PARTICIPANT: I'm Jean Rosendale, and I come from the far north. North Queen's Land up in the top of Australia. We grow sugar cane, bananas, papayas, and passion fruit. I am a mother of four and a grandmother of seven. And, you know, when your children are little you always think their pretty good these kids, you know, and we had a little fellow who loved to drive the car. He was eight. And he could just see over the steering wheel, and we had a harvest to driver at the time, and Daniel was taking the snowgo over to the paddock and the harvester driver said, "Oh, the car, she down the road with nobody in!" Course he couldn't see Daniel in the car. But, with my grandchildren, I'm more careful. And we feel now, if we educate the children, we educate the parents. So, we've got these books, if you saw the salute to Australia, you would've seen the Go Anna Wrongly on that poster thing. And this is Giddy Go Anna. And he's the cartoon character in our books. This is number one book. And then we reprinted it, another time. It's put out by the Common Wealth Division of Workplace Health and Safety. And our local cain growers group has them in its file. We sell them for $6.00, we give them to the schools, hoping that they will read them. I give them to all of my grandchildren. And I'll just show you a little about what Giddy Go Anna does. The first thing he gets his tailors cousins come from the city to stay. So, there you've got the three tailors cousins in Giddy Go Anna. And the book is beautifully done, and the children love bright colors, so the little ones, they love it. And here we've got things you don't do. You don't swim under the pump, you know, under the irrigation pump, here. And you don't ride on the back of tractors. We have a lot of tractor accidents. We also have a lot of accidents with ride on mowers. People don't seem to think they are as dangerous as the tractor, and they let the children ride on them and they fall off, they have badly cut feet. One little fellow ran over his sister. He killed his sister. You know, its a terrible thing that they don't think of. Anyway, that's what he's about to do. He doesn't go into the silo either. But then he goes into the farm shed and there's terrible things in the farm shed. You've got fellow playing with matches, you've got another block welding over here, you've got another fellow with a chain saw, and the tractor he's starting up, and he's got giddy's towel underneath the tractor. Then we've got a maze. Where he's got to find his way home. But he doesn't get passed the bees and the snakes. I know you've got no snakes in Ireland. And he doesn't get near the barb wire fence. So, he's got to find his way home safely. Then on the next page, this is like those doll cut-outs you used to get, you know and you dressed them up. He's going on his motor bike. What's he going to wear? Well, he doesn't wear his t-shirt and thongs, which are, you know, Australian standard dress. He's got to get better dressed. So, he puts on his helmet and his boots and his knit gloves and his jeans. And that's very important because a lot of the children ride bikes on the farms. I don't know. I suppose your children do, too. They tear around on their motor bikes. If they've got jeans on, at least if they come off, they don't get as badly damaged. Here we are, he's going to go to play. But he's got to find out where to play. You play here, but you don't play where the guns are. And you don't ride two abreast. And you don't have your kite or slide the kite properly there, he's flying it underneath a power line. Now, Getty Go Anna Go Getty Go Anna go farmer go, has some great ear muffs as a present. Where's he going to be using ear muffs? With the chain saw, of course. Not riding the horse. Not feeding the cows and the pigs and the chocks, but when he's up riding all of the machinery, he has his ear muffs on. We have a high case of ear damage. You know with all the farmers, like how there's hearing gone. Then in the front, you can join the Getty Go Anna Club, and you get little stickers, and you get a birthday card, and here's the snakes and lighters guide, only its different. And the books stand up to a lot of wear, because my kids are pretty hard on them. I've got littlies from 14 months to 11 years of age. Now, he's got to spray chemicals. Now chemical spraying, we had the papaya fruit fly came, and we had to dip all of our things in chemicals, and so that is where the Cuttier Farm. And we had to go out with all of our gear on. And, I'll tell you, I looked like Darth Vader, you know, with the mask and the whole works. But, they've got to pick from here, what he's got to wear if he's going spraying. So it's again another choice, multiple choice thing. Here he is! He's having a day off. Well, you do not run fly your kite under the power lines, you don't have the irrigation coming up over the power lines. All the little things. Next page, you've got another maze. He's got to find his helmet because he shouldn't ride his bike, actually, in Australia you must wear a helmet if you're riding a push bike. So, he's got to find his helmet to wear his push bike. It's a hard hat. Even adults have to wear them if they're riding a push bike. And here we go, here's the tailors cousins again, and they're going horse riding. And look at him, he's sun screening, and, oh, he's silly. But, this fellow, he's right, and he's even got his sun screen in his pocket, you see, because we have a very high incidence of skin cancer. So, Giddy's bought the sun screen in there. Oh, he's got his hard hat on, too. Then when you get out of here, that's what he's got to have, the sun screen, the proper hat, all of the things you must wear for the different activities you're going to do. And he's going out to play, so he's got to find that I've hidden all these things and he's got to find them. So, that's another seek and look thing. I have to take infants, and the kids love these, they really do. So, so I treat you like infants, I'm sorry. But that, that's Giddy Go Anna book and its available, I don't know how you get it here. I said if I brought two boxes I could have gotten rid of them no trouble at all. It's put out LCWI, which is like your Women's Institute, we also encourage them, we sell them through the CWI, and we give them as prizes for kiddies when they do in school. Exercise things. And its wonderful and I love it. And its colorful and I think its terrific, so I bought it out for people to look at. Thank you.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you.

PARTICIPANT: Can I just add something else from Australia? I'm from broad acre farm. So the biggest problem with young children on our farms is there large storage of water, which we call dams, and that's drowning. So, we've tried to institute a program of making a place safe on the farm for children. We know we can't make the whole working farm safe. So, we've tried to get people to realize that they have to make one place safe on their farm. It may be the house yard, it may be an area in a shed, if they're working in the shed. People have fenced off areas in their sheds, so they actually have their children there while they're still working and they know they are safe, and not wondering away near the farm dams. It was just unrealistic to say that you should fence and dam because I've never yet seen a strong kid that couldn't jump a fence and get into a dam. The other thing we've tried to do with our farm safety audits, which are what Betty was talking about, your farm certificates, is its done on three levels. Its done from the adult level, the child level, and the female and male point of view because we all know that we farm differently. So, a safety threat to a child is not a safety threat to me and husband, who is 6 foot 4. I'm not going to hit my head on something that a child is going to hit their head on, in the family shed we all have shed. So the farm safety in my state of Victoria, which is the lowest southeast state, is conducted on three levels. On what the child sees when in their environment, what the female farmer sees in her environment, what the male farmer sees in his environment, and that's reviewed each year. That's a farmer instituted program. It's not mandated. It is becoming part of our occupational health and safety, which is like your OSHA, but it is still self-driven because our concerns with safety is so strong in Australia that we're really trying to be very responsible families and be for our country. And the other thing is that we're very strong on chemical, food chemical practices, where you have lockable chemical sheds, aerated, so that the fumes can escape. And also we must eye box and shelves fitted properly in that facility so that work is ourselves, as the families, can take proper safety precautions. And that's becoming inbred with their occupational health and safety, like your OSHA. And, we consider that just to be responsible farming practice and good business management in looking after the farm family, which is our best resource. Thank you.

MS. ADAMS: Thank you. And what was your name please?

Claire Furry. Okay. Anybody else want to share your farm safety programs, what you're doing. Anybody else want to come up and share the mike?

If not, I would like to show one more video. Door prize here. This one we're going to watch the whole thing, and its 7 minutes. Prove my point of adults enjoying children's materials just as much as the children do. We do not have anything in Spanish, but we, there are some Spanish materials that are developed for farm safety and children. Nothing, that I'm aware of in video. But, let me check on that and let you know.

Okay.

Speaker is showing video.

MS. ADAMS: Growing up on the farm can be a lot of fun. And it is. And I can't think of any other place I would want to raise my family. I'm on my second family, and my husband's for families can be raised on our farm. And I've got my kids, that my big kids that are 26 and 28, and Daryl has kids that are older than mine. And then we have a little 7 year old. And, so, we really find that it's important to keep that dialogue going as a family, it's tough to get the message across even my own family because, Father's Day, for example, when all the kids were home, I looked out the window and I saw the big boys, Daryl's boys, taking their kids and mine to the pond in the back of the pick-up. I came a little bit unglued later. When I talked to their dad, I had no way to put a stop to it. I just looked out, and there they all went. And I geez, even on my farm. It just continues to happen. And it's it's that's a tough one. It's really tough to change those traditions and interrupt all that fun they were having and I I had to turn my back and hope and pray that it doesn't happen again. And, we've discussed it since that time, and I'm not sure that I even won the discussion. But, it's it's not easy. It really isn't. And, we have a lot going for us. We all care and we all have our own style of how to address the situation. But, at Farm Safety for Just Kids, what we have done is we decided a few years ago that we that we wanted core groups of people in the community to deliver this message. And we those chapters. Some people would call them coalitions. And so we have them formally come together under our name of Fun Safety for Just Kids, are able to use our non-profit status and have their own paperwork to fill out and everything, so they can do fund raising to pay for their programs, in their own communities. They pay a small amount of dues to the national/international headquarters, our office, and that helps pay for some of the materials and things that we send out to them. It takes, we have 9 people on staff, and if we had 18 people on staff, that still wouldn't be enough. It takes a lot of work to manage the organization that I started. Chapters work, we empower them to do their own programs, and so, they inform and educate the public about the importance of farm safety. So they work with the media, that year round media coverage, where we have it in a lot of different communities, and not just on the national scale or not just in Iowa. They distribute the educational materials, what we develop and what other people develop and get those materials out there to their schools. We have corporate sponsors. The chemical companies and the tractor and machinery companies and Cargel, Dally Lanco, and different ones, I've got Pioneer Seed Company. So, we go out and seek the funding. I have to do a big portion of that myself. Seek the funding to pay for these programs, to pay for the development of the programs, to pay our staff, and I am now paid staff as well, which I didn't start out that way. I started out on a volunteer basis, just doing what any crazy mother would do. But, the people in the communities, they set up and staff local displays, they go to the county fair, they go to the state fair, they go farm shows, parades, into the school, we have a day camp program that's sponsored by some of the insurance companies, and Progressive Farmer magazine sponsors a lot of day camps in the states. And, what they do there is set up stations for the kids to go from one station to another for about 15 to 20 minutes. And they learn tractor safety, and chemical safety, and fire safety, and first response, and so every community tailors that to fit their own needs. And so, they're provided with a book of how to, their provided with the training of how to do the program, and then they tailor it to fit their own needs, because we can't all know everybody's needs. And so, give somebody a structure to work from and they can define their program from that. And so our chapters have been very very successful in getting involved in the communities. And a part of that is our sponsors most of them encourage their people out in the field to try to help start up chapters or get involved in programs. And so our corporate sponsors get involved with farm safety. They not only give us funding, but they serve on our board and they find ways that that their staff and their people out in the communities can help service their customers better by providing farm safety materials, and the education. And we rely on the farm families to make their own decisions on what their farming practices are. We have no child labor laws on the family farms. And so, it is the ultimate decision of the parents and the grandparents and the responsible adults to provide these kids with guidance. And so, a lot of the parents do take the responsibility to get these kids involved in the farm safety programs. Nothing is mandated other than our tractor certification courses. And that's not done through Farm Safety for Just Kids, that's done through extension. We have a child labor law that states that kids cannot work on somebody else's farm for hire unless they are 13 or 14 years old and they've taken this tractor training course. And then they get a certificate. Now, in most of the states, it's legal for the kids to even drive on the roads, on the public roads, within 2 mile radius of their farm.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: At any age. A 4 year old can drive a tractor down the road. It's private property, plus within a 2 mile radius of your farm. They can be on the public road. So, when we go to church on Sunday, we may meet a little guy that can't see over the steering wheel on a tractor. And, Wisconsin is the only state that I'm aware of that has a law against the kids driving on public highways. And they can even drive on the gravel. And so, our kids are driving on public roads.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: Some of the agri-classroom programs use our materials, some of the extension do. All of the state extension offices are aware of our materials. Now, whether or not the counties are all aware of it, I don't know. And we could probably do a better job of marketing into those arenas. We do most of our marketing, if you will, through the media, through successful farming magazine, farm journal, Progressive Farmer magazine, and they promote our materials and promote Farm Safety for Just Kids. Most of the time, a lot of that stuff is in the fall and so October seems to be a big time when most of the magazines are promoting the farm safety programs that are going on, and that includes ours.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: We're a we're available to help you find someone. There's 9 of us. There's 3 of us that travel non-stop. So, we help you find someone in your communities whether it be one of our chapter people or extension or whatever. But, yes, we've got someone by the phones, just regular working hours, 5 days a week. But 3 of us do travel and do presentations and we've gotten to the point where we've had to charge an honorarium to cover expenses and everything for that. But, you know, the skits and the puppet shows and things like that are things that your community people can do. And, we really expect people to use these materials in that way rather than always having our staff do that because we've, you know, what we have developed and some of the materials that extensions and different ones have, work really well for people to do the program themselves. And so, we provide you with tons of guidance. If you become a member of Farm Safety for Just Kids, you get a quarterly newsletter, and that updates you on what people are doing, at least in the United States and some of what's going on in Canada. But, we really believe that there's a real natural fit here for community people, and I can't stress that enough because we all have the capabilities of, if not doing it ourselves, finding someone that we can delegate that out to, and say this is really great, and I got this and I want to share, and let's get a program going in our community. And, so you've got your commodity groups and your civic groups and help professionals and emergency professionals and different ones that are looking for things to do, and they need an idea. And they need something that's already developed and so that's that's why we do this.

PARTICIPANT: Inaudible.

MS. ADAMS: We're free to duplicate anything that we produce. We would like for you to give us credit. But, yes, you can copy anything that we do. We've got just a few more minutes, and I'd like to spend that time -- Is there any questions? Yes.

PARTICIPANT: I'm a reporter. Occupational Health and Safety. This may be a silly question, but are all these materials, like your materials, and materials that your other folks from the other countries, are describing, are these all aimed at family farms and children growing up in community working on neighbors farm, are any of them aimed at children of migrant workers?

MS. ADAMS: Our materials at Farm Safety for Just Kids, this far, have only been developed for the farm families. But there are materials, if you want to leave your card there, there are materials that can help you get in touch with for the migrant families. I know that there's a lot of good programs out there.

PARTICIPANT: Australian Giddy Go Ann books are designed for all children. Children have come out from the city to visit grandparents on the farm. Its good for them to learn.