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Farm Safety 4 Just Kids Disbands After a Thirty Year Run
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:35:10 CDT
The safety organization, Farm Safety for Just Kids, has closed its doors. After 30 years of advocating safety on the farm, the board of the organization has voted to disband the group. In a statement, the group said Farm Safety for Just Kids would donate $5,000 each to the National 4-H Council and the National FFA Organization, in "recognition of their important advocacy for youth safety in agriculture."
The remainder of Farm Safety for Just Kids' assets will be donated to the Progressive Agriculture Foundation. Farm Safety for Just Kids will also give its library of educational materials and other intellectual property to the Progressive Agriculture Foundation to remain free of charge to the public. As agriculture has changed since the organization was founded in 1987, the Board of Farm Safety for Just Kids believes that the mission of making agriculture safer for youth will be better served by combining its resources with the Progressive Agriculture Foundation. The statement says "Farm Safety for Just Kids has accomplished what Marilyn Adams set out to do nearly 30 years ago."
According to the organization's website, "In the Fall of 1986 11-year-old Keith Algreen suffocated in a gravity flow wagon of corn while helping with harvest on his parents' farm. Months later Keith's mother Marilyn Adams helped her daughter with an FFA project on farm safety. Their research revealed Keith wasn't the only one.
"Hundreds of kids died on farms every year. Compelled to action, Marilyn founded Farm Safety For Just Kids the following year in the hopes of preventing another tragedy.
For over 25 years, Farm Safety For Just Kids has built upon the foundation laid by Marilyn. The organization has come a long way since its start in Marilyn's spare room."
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