Longford business awarded €51,660 for farm safety, health and wellbeing projects

Midland Agri Consultants (Paul Belton) has been awarded €51,660 for farm safety, health and wellbeing projects.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon TD, and Minister of State with special responsibility for Forestry, Farm Safety and Horticulture, Michael Healy-Rae TD announced details of the funding last week.

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The successful projects were selected following an open call for proposals earlier this year.

Midland Agri Consultants was allocated €32,460 towards ‘Let’s talk about it! A warm invitation for a friendly chat with other farmers’ and €19,200 for ‘Farm Machinery Training and Education for Future Operators’.

Minister Heydon said: "There was an excellent response to the call, with 40 projects selected for funding of €1.68 million. I am confident that these projects will make an important contribution to promoting farmer safety, health and wellbeing not only among farmers, farming families, farm workers and agricultural contractors who engage directly with the projects.”

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The projects are being funded from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s dedicated farm safety budget.

Successful projects under the call cover one or more of the following themes: farm safety, farmers’ physical health, farmers’ mental health and wellbeing, farmers’ physical and mental health checks, tractor driving awareness training for children 14 years of age and older, chainsaw training for farmers and farm safety, health and wellbeing events/engagement.