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Article: Dealers encouraged to promote equipment safety: the Farm Safety 4 Just Kids program reaches today's customers and, through the children, the customers of tomorrow.
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- Implement & Tractor
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- November 1, 2004
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Agricultural equipment dealers are known to be promoters of safety, according to Lana Likens, director of public relations and marketing for the Jefferson Community Health Center in Fairbury, Neb. That's why she encourages dealers to get involved in the Farm Safety 4 Just Kids program.
"It's a way to encourage safety habits among their customers and their future customers," she explains.
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (FS4JK), a non-profit organization based in Iowa, was founded in 1987 by Marilyn Adams alter her 11-year-old son, Keith Algren, suffocated in a gravity flow wagon of shelled corn on the family's farm. Following Keith's death, Marilyn and her ...