The agricultural weather from the National Weather Service Climate Predication Center 8- to 14-day outlook for Sept. 17 to 23, 2025, updated Sept. 9, for our area of the Midwest, is now calling for temperatures to be “highly likely to be above” normal but “likely below” normal outlook for precipitation.
September is the time for National Farm Safety and Health Week, promoted for Sept. 21 to 27, 2025. The theme this year is safety first, avoid the worst. The 2022 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the agricultural sector is still the most dangerous in America with 417 fatalities. Locally, Monroe County, Michigan had a farmer killed in a tractor accident a year ago and this past summer a Lenawee County farmer committed suicide. Statistics are only kept for fatalities, not injuries, and most farmers have had farm injuries likely several times in their career.
The National Farm Safety and Health Week has been proclaimed as such by every sitting U.S. President since Franklin D Roosevelt in 1944. National Farm Safety and Health Week is led by the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, the agricultural partner of the National Safety Council…