Longford firm awarded funding for two farm safety, health and wellbeing projects
Granard based firm will receive €72,000 towards its ‘Farm Machinery Safety-Awareness Education and Training for Young People’ initiative and €25,000 for ‘Farm Forward 2026’
Midlands Agri Consultants Ltd has been awarded €97,000 in funding for two farm safety, health and wellbeing projects.
The Granard based firm will receive €72,000 towards its ‘Farm Machinery Safety-Awareness Education and Training for Young People’ initiative and €25,000 for ‘Farm Forward 2026’.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon TD, last week announced the awarding of €1.18 million in funding to 46 farm safety, health and wellbeing projects.
Farmer health and wellbeing checks, livestock handling training and tractor driving safety awareness training for children 14 years of age and older are among some of the 46 projects selected to help address farming’s poor safety record while also supporting farmer health and wellbeing.
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Announcing the funding, Minister Heydon said: “I am delighted to make this significant investment which builds on the success of the open call over the last two years in driving improvements in key safety risks on farms and promoting farmer health and wellbeing.”
The funding is being delivered through the Open Call for Farm Safety, Health and Wellbeing Projects which was open to applications earlier this year. This competitive call saw a high volume of applications from across the country.
Welcoming the expansion of the farmer physical and mental health checks to include health behaviour change follow-up conversations, the Minister said: “The farmer physical and mental health checks have proven to be very successful over the past two years with over 5,700 farmer health checks completed since August 2024. This year, to ensure farmers maximise the benefits of their health checks, I am funding behaviour change follow-up conversations facilitated by health professionals. Where appropriate, farmers who avail of health checks will be offered tailored follow-up supports to encourage them to take the appropriate steps to protect their health.”