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Showing agriculture is an accessible career option for anyone to consider. Awareness & opportunity in ag

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Enabling opportunity and awareness for disability in agriculture abilityagriculture.com Support us in 2024 -Corporate Sponsorship packages available -Farm Store for Good - purchase a cotton cap -Looking for a charity to support in 2024 for a fundraiser we’d love to be supported https://instagram.com/ability\_agriculture?r=nametag Instagram: Ability Agriculture Facebook group: Ability Agriculture Contact: ability.agriculture@gmail.com

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Bellimbopinni , NSW

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2023

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  💥 Ability in Agriculture - Independent Report Launch 💥 December 3rd 2023 Today is International Day of Persons with disability. This IDPWD we thought we'd launch our first independent report uncovering insights into the support, adaptations, current perceptions and the road forward for disability inclusion & adaptions in agriculture. Why? The Ability Agriculture Foundation undertook this survey for a few reasons: -there is limited published data on farmers or agricultural workers with disability in Australia, further there is limited understanding of agricultural accessibility and the major barriers to inclusion or accessibility in agriculture and our rural communities -our industry and broader society do not have baseline metrics on the disability confidence or inclusion of our agricultural industry from settings of employment, agricultural services, awareness & access to resources -a need for greater understanding to the adjustments, supports, resources & adaptions in rural areas for individuals, agricultural workers & employers to build inclusion and agricultural accessibility Over the next week we will post some of our key statistics these may be the first baseline for Australian agriculture. These may be some statistics that are conversation starters over your Graze to Raise morning tea. Importantly our road forward is through more than just advocacy, it is through support & collaboration, working with industry & the broader disability community. If there's any one thing from our Ability in Agriculture Report to take away, we don't need to anecdotally say "we believe", but we know agriculture has the ability and want for positive & proactive change. It’s the reason this incredible supportive Ability Agriculture Community has formed. National Farmers' Federation Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) Ltd Grain Growers Limited AgriFutures Australia The Weekly Times National Disability Insurance Agency
  
• Ability Agriculture was sorry to hear of Brodie and his families experience last week. We hope that a resolution can be found so that Brodie and his horse promise can be back out on the ring in a safe and inclusive way.#inclusion #agriculture
  
• Heard or Herd - that's what we wanted to call our pilot audiovisual series. Where we could create a community or "herd" of shared experience and support, but also for the perspectives and experiences of our community to be "heard". The Herd pilot was actually made a little while ago, and wouldn't have been possible without John Worrel who donated his time to help make our pilot and Felicity and her family for welcoming us onto their farm and sharing their story. We were going to post this when we secured funding or sponsorship, but in the world of navigating funding as a NFP we're actually still looking for a sponsor who may be interested in helping us bring a series to light, and to help in our mission to build an inclusive community and create greater awareness and opportunity of agriculture for persons with disability. If there's someone who might like to throw their hat in the ring please feel free to get in touch. Thanks again to Felicity and her family for being apart of our pilot and we hope this connects & resonates with others in agriculture and outside of our industry. National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) ifarmwell National Farmers' Federation AgriFutures Australia National Disability Insurance Agency Department of Social Services (DSS) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) #abilityagriculture #herd #dgr #inclusion #disability #awareness
  
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  People in Paddocks | HR & WHS Consultant to Farmers | Member of AHRI | I am passionate about agriculture, people dynamics & inclusive learning platforms
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  Free Online Safety Videos... Over 7,000 website visitors before any promotion is a great start. There is a huge gap in the ag sector for neurodiverse inclusive safety training resources. And we think... big call... that plays a significant role in our industry's 20 year fatality rate record :( We have been scouring the Australian web for suitable safety training videos - and found some great ones - but not enough. So, we've started collecting and creating safety videos to accompany our written emergency & safe work procedures. Our collection is by no means complete or perfect - but it's a start and we're getting great traction. We would LOVE to receive links to any additional ones - they must be aimed at the ag worker, as short as possible, engaging and free. Every ag worker in Australia deserves to know the basic safety rules that could save their life. So please share this free resource 💗 Farming without fatalities. Pass it on... save a life WorkSafe Victoria Safe Work Australia National Centre for Farmer Health National Farmers' Federation
  
• We're excited to see AgTech Finder completed their Ability Agricheck for Web Accessibility What does this mean? AgTech Finder completed a detailed web accessibility report with Ability Agriculture to identify key WCAG errors that may have impacted the accessibility & usability of their website for farmers with impairments to find, filter and select Agtech that may be useful for their agribusiness. AgTech Finder implemented key recommendations from their Ability Agricheck report to improve their web accessibility. Thanks to Food Agility & AgTech Finder for committing to greater inclusion & accessibility in agriculture with our Ability Agricheck. If your agribusiness may be interested in understanding or improving their web accessibility you can find more information on our website abilityagriculture.comAbility Agricheck is an accessibility consulting service of the Ability Agriculture Foundation aimed at providing a service that can create greater inclusion & accessibility in agriculture. Ability Agrichecks can also be completed for ag events & industry programs.
  
• Nominate a Rural Region or Remote Australia school to participate in our Vege garden program to empower and connect students with disability to agriculture 🌾 Thanks to the Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal were able to expand our program and support 10 more schools. Please feel free to share to your networks or nominate a RRR (rural regional remote) school that would like to participate Nominate through our website: abilityagriculture.com #abilityagriculture #frrr #abcheywire
  
• Save the date🗓️ Inclusive Livestock Drone mustering workshop SkyKelpie supporting the Ability Agriculture Foundation For Mid North Coast Producers & Ag students October 11th, Kempsey NSW Register via Eventbritehttps://lnkd.in/g6ieekt7Proudly Sponsored by Kempsey Shire CouncilA little bit about Aerial Stockmanship: Aerial stockmanship provides a new, cost effective, innovative and safe avenue for mustering & monitoring livestock, such as in floods and fires. It also provides an avenue to support persons with disability or impairments to be able to check on livestock and continue to be involved in their animal agriculture enterprise. Our aim is to hold an inclusive drone mustering workshop event for primary producers and local agricultural highschool students on the Mid North Coast in partnership with Skykelpie whereby an optional donation for entry & fundraising lunch will go towards the Ability Agriculture Foundation a charity supporting individuals and families with disability in agriculture. Thanks to Luke Chaplain from SkyKelpie for bringing his skills and workshop to Mid North Coast Producers.
  
• We’d like to congratulate our first Ability Agripreneur Maddison Pearce - the Calf trolley 🐮 To help assist with the heavy lifting of calf lifting during calving season on dairy farms. Maddisons background and how her idea came about: Maddison has worked in the dairy and research industry on farm and in management. After an agricultural incident Maddison designed the cow trolley as it would make picking up and carrying calves an easier task for herself and also potentially create a safer and less strenuous way of collecting calves for dairy workers during calving season. Ability Agricultures Agripreneur scholarship will connect Maddi with engineering and business mentors and help Maddi with taking her idea to the next step such as a product development plan that could consider manufacturing costs and how the calf trolley may be useful for other tasks on farm or for other farmers. If you have an idea for accessible agriculture we still have 2 Agripreneurs scholarships available. Applications can be submitted via our website abilityagriculture.comImage: SIA Sydney Dairy Australia #abilityagriculture #abilityagripreneurs #inclusivedesign #adaptiveag
  

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