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Show Farm Bureau to establish safety program to reduce accidents and promote awarenP( been appointed UFB director of farm safety, and will travel the state meeting with individual farmers, farm and ranch organization leaders, Future Farmers of America students, 4-H groups and others, in an effort to create a greater awareness of farm and farm home safety. He added much of Ferguson's responsiblities will be directed toward organizing farmer volunteers to promote safety awareness on a local basis. An Orem farmer, Ferguson holds a B.S. degree from BYU and an M.B.A. from Arizona State. He has extensive military training in engineering and eauinn, He is bilingual, andft months has direct 7 Bureau's alien "J assistance program 2 i' tmue as a consults", V Bureau on that progrZ 10 r Ashby said Utah State!,,. f Extension, which had farm safety consultant hT will now emphasS !lS advice, health irrformT research on such? pesticides, etc. He said ll85 ' tension officials have pled 5 1 cooperative support of 5i Farm Bureau farm safety4 Governor Bangerter and officials of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation have announced the establishment of a full-time farm and ranch safety program, in an effort to reduce the growing number of farm accidents in the state. The Farm Bureau Safety Program is funded, in part, by a grant from the Utah Industrial Commission's Occupational Safety and Health Division. While other funding will be provided by Farm Bureau, the program will be available to all farmers regardless of farm organization membership. "I am pleased to make this announcement an-nouncement because it is a good example of a joint working relationship between state government gover-nment and the private sector. It shows how public funds can be multiplied through private efforts," Governor Bangerter said. UFB President Kenneth R. Ashby, Delta, said there have been five farm fatalities reported so far this year, and that the number of accidental injuries appears to be increasing, as well. "It's apparent that we must do something to reduce this tragic . loss to the families of the victims and to our agricultural industry," he said. Ashby said Jerry Ferguson has |