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Getting Injured Canadian Farmers Back To Work

The Back to Ag program helped four injured Canadian farmers get back to farming.

It's a partnership of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, Farm Credit Canada and the Rick Hansen Foundation.

The program offers injured farmers up to 10 thousand dollars to help buy adaptive technology so they can do their jobs around the farm.

One of the farmers helped so far is from Ontario - the other three are from Saskatchewan.

One of the Saskatchewan farmers lost portions of his index and middle finger on his right hand in an incident involving a round baler.

The Back to Ag program helped him buy a cattle-feed cart to help feed his livestock without the risk of further injuring his hand.

There's more information on the program on the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association's website - www.casa-acsa.ca.

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