Quarterly

e-newsletter of AgInjuryNews

Summer 2025

The Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) invites abstract submissions for Lightning Talks and Poster Presentations at the 2025 ASHCA Summit taking place from October 20-22, 2025 at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas.

This is your opportunity to share research, programs, or practical interventions that improve the health and safety of agricultural workers, farm families, and others in production agriculture. Submissions are open to the public, with priority given to abstracts focused on real-world applications that address current challenges in agricultural safety and health.

• Lightning Talks: A fast-paced format where authors deliver a 3-minute oral overview of their work to the full audience.
• Poster Presentations: Authors will display and discuss a visual poster of their work during designated networking and exhibit times.

This forum encourages cross-sector collaboration among researchers, educators, risk managers, and industry leaders — all working toward safer agricultural environments.

The theme of this event is, “Joint Actions for Farmer Health and Mental Wellbeing,” in order to show the importance of working together to improve and support farmer health and wellbeing. The event is organized by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in collaboration with our Swedish and Nordic colleagues, and sponsored by the European Union. The main theme will be on the Nordic perspectives, but the conference language is English and international participants are welcome to attend and present! Information about submission of abstracts, registration, travel and other practical issues is available at www.nmaoh2025.com.

Questions? Contact Peter.Lundqvist@slu.se

The Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) is pleased to announce the 2025 North American Agricultural Safety Summit, October 20–22, 2025, at Holiday Inn San Antonio-Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. ASHCA is a coalition of organizations, businesses, federal agencies, and safety professionals, all seeking to improve the health and safety of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural workers.

If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting, please contact ASHCA for full details at info@ashca.org.

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is accepting submissions for a Special Issue titled “Public Health: Rural Health Services Research—2nd Edition.”

This issue will highlight innovations and research addressing the persistent health disparities faced by regional, rural, and remote communities. These populations often experience limited access to care, workforce shortages, and poorer health outcomes compared to urban counterparts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Design, delivery, and evaluation of rural and remote health services
• Health workforce development, training, and retention
• Integrated healthcare models and telehealth
• Technological innovations in healthcare
• Environmental and public health
• Capacity building and community-based approaches
• Health policy and universal health coverage
• Indigenous and First Nations health
• Care for marginalized or disadvantaged populations

This multidisciplinary Special Issue encourages collaboration between clinicians, public health professionals, and researchers to address critical environmental and public health challenges.

• Aby, R., Sullivan, C., Weichelt B. 2025. Injuries Caused by Agricultural Machinery: Evaluating Historical Data and the Safety Implications of Autonomous Machinery. Poster presented at the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Conference. Portland, ME. June 23-25, 2025.



• Aby, R. 2025. Exploring Data Sources for Agricultural Injury Surveillance. Poster presented at the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Conference. Portland, ME. June 23-25, 2025.

• Weichelt, B., Gorucu, S., Aby, R., Pilz, M. 2025. A Decade of AgInjuryNews: An Overview of Available Data, Collaborations, Usage, Outputs, and Potential. Oral presentation at the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Conference. Portland, ME. June 23-25, 2025.

To view an updated listing of peer-reviewed manuscripts resulting from the work related to AgInjuryNews, please visit our Learn More page. If interested in citing the system/data, please use this:

Weichelt, B., Salzwedel, M., Heiberger, S., Lee, B.C. (2018). Establishing a Publicly Available National Database of U.S News Articles Reporting Agriculture-Related Injuries and Fatalities. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 61(8), 667-674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22860

Bryan Weichelt Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Research Scientist, NFMC

Serap Gorucu Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor

 University of Florida

Juan Saucedo,

Research Coordinator,

CCEPH

Sheena LaBossiere,

Canadian Agricultural Safety Association

Christopher Wanat,

Health Educator,

NFMC

Matt Pilz,

Senior Software Engineer, NFMC

Roger Aby Ph.D.,

Research Specialist, NFMC

Christopher Benny,

M.D. Candidate,

MCW-CW

In addition to our Core Team the following have contributed to this issue of the AIN Newsletter: Marie Fleisner and Scott Heiberger. Thank you!

This is the Volume 2 Issue 8 of the AgInjuryNews quarterly e-newsletter. To unsubscribe, email nccrahs@marshfieldclinic.org

Funding support has been provided through the National Farm Medicine Center, the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA), the Dean Emanuel Endowment, and the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety via the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH; grant number: U54 OH009568).