February 2022: AgrAbility PA Project Highlights

February brought several opportunities to further outreach initiatives as well as educational presentations. Outreach Initiatives Mid Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention: AgrAbility shared space with the PA Office of Rural Health’s Worker Protection Standard display at this regional convention. Information available at the exhibit included AgrAbility PA and PA Assistive Read more…

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AgrAbility Gives Farmers With Disabilities Hope for the Future

This article appeared in Lancaster Farming on Jan. 27, 2022. View the article on lancasterfarming.com. Thanks to recent funding from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, a Pennsylvania-based program that assists farmers with disabilities will have strong funding for the next four years. AgrAbility PA, a partnership Read more…

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Penn State secures funding to continue assisting farmers with disabilities

USDA-NIFA grant will enable AgrAbility for Pennsylvanians (AgrAbility PA) to enhance programs and increase assistance to farmers across the state UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded funding to Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences to help farmers with disabilities remain productive Read more…

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AgrAbility helps farmers overcome health conditions to continue farming

Dairy Farmer and AgrAbility PA Customer Chelsi Shultz shared her story with Farm and Dairy -- an agricultural publication that has served the rural communities of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia for more than 100 years. Shultz was diagnosed with shoulder impingement in both shoulders. “It was all of that Read more…

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