Program Preps Teens for Farm Work, Meets Certification Requirements
With summer approaching and Geauga County’s farmland beginning to green up, a long-dormant youth tractor safety program has returned to help train the next generation of agricultural workers on safe equipment operation.
With summer approaching and Geauga County’s farmland beginning to green up, a long-dormant youth tractor safety program has returned to help train the next generation of agricultural workers on safe equipment operation. Geauga County Farm Bureau President Bob Rogish, a certified instructor with the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program through Penn State University, helped revive the course with support from local volunteers, the Geauga County 4-H program, businesses and the Ohio State University Extension office. The class had not been offered in the county for nearly three decades. “This class is incredibly important to the future of agriculture...
