Mike Biadasz Farm Safety and Education Memorial Fund

02/10/2026

Farm & Tractors Safety Course

This course is designed for youth 12-17 years of age who will be operating tractors or self-propelled implements of husbandry on public roads under direction of their parent or guardian for work-related to their family farm operation and/or 14-15 years of age who will be employed or working without pay on a farm other than their family farm and completes the requirements for a federal certificate of training. Priority registration for participants 12-15 years of age.

Spring Break - Week 1
📆March 16-20
🪧 ⬆️ https://explorefoodandfarm.org/events/tractor-safety-march16-2026
🌼Local Schools on Spring Break this week🌼
⚠️SPASH⚠️Pacelli⚠️Rosholt⚠️

Spring Break - Week 2
📆March 23-27
🪧⬆️ https://explorefoodandfarm.org/events/tractor-safety-march23-2026
🌼Local Schools on Spring Break this week🌼
⚠️Amherst⚠️Almond⚠️Iola⚠️

Summer Course
📆June 8-12
🪧⬆️ https://explorefoodandfarm.org/events/tractor-safety-june8-2026
⚠️State FFA Convention students will have accommodated made for this event⚠️

🚜 We need 10 kids minimum to run the class🚜

Food + Farm Exploration Center Wisconsin Custom Operators, Inc. Swiderski Equipment Inc.B104.7 National Farm Medicine Center Rural Mutual Insurance: Jennifer Zinda-Mancl Feltz Family Farms

09/22/2025

Mike Biadasz, a passionate young farmer from Amherst, WI, died on August 15, 2016 when he was overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas. Mike had been agitating manure in the open lagoon at his family’s cattle feeding operation. The gas also killed sixteen cattle near the lagoon.

08/22/2025

https://www.dairyherd.com/news/business/breaking-devastating-dairy-farm-accident-colorado-kills-six

Six individuals tragically lost their lives following a confined space rescue operation at a Keenesburg, Colo., dairy farm.

08/21/2025

A reminder of the community classes we're offering this year!

08/10/2025

Agriculture is everywhere.

07/19/2025

07/15/2025

Absolutely LOVE seeing post like this!!! Congratulations to all the kids on your safety certificate❤️. Here’s to farming forever

06/04/2025

06/04/2025

A few more spots are available!

🚜 A few more spots are available 🚜

❤️🐓Youth Farm and Tractor Safety 🐄🌾

❤️ Enrollment is open 🚜

❤️ Couse Date: July 7th - July 14th

To sign up please register at:

Young farmworkers can sign up for this Tractor and Farm Safety course for an in-depth training on the expectations of farm work along with basics of agricultural safety & hazards. Provides requirements for state and federal certification. Open to learners 12-16 years old. Space is limited so res

04/08/2025

❤️🐓Youth Farm and Tractor Safety 🐄🌾

❤️ Enrollment is open 🚜

❤️ Couse Date: July 7th - July 14th

To sign up please register at:

Young farmworkers can sign up for this Tractor and Farm Safety course for an in-depth training on the expectations of farm work along with basics of agricultural safety & hazards. Provides requirements for state and federal certification. Open to learners 12-16 years old. Space is limited so res

12/06/2024

Tomorrow morning the Food+Farm is have a coffee chat for farmer regarding the Easter Seal Program. Please see more information on the attached link

Join us for this free Common Grounds Coffee Chat. Meet Michelle Bachand to learn about AgrAbility of Wisconsin, who it can help and the assistive technologies available. See you soon at Food + Farm Exploration Center.

12/04/2024

Please keep this family in your prayers and please stay safe handling and storing grain

Multiple Departments Respond To Silo Rescue Near Lowell

Around 11 AM, Tuesday, Lake County Emergency Management along with fire departments from Lowell, Cedar Lake, Crown Point, Tri-Creek, Gary and DNR units responded to an entrapment in a grain silo located in the 2200 block of 203rd in Lowell.

Fire and EMS units arrived on scene and rescue attempts had already been initiated by the workers of the farm to free the trapped individual by letting grain out of the silo through a torch cut hole. Fire, Technical Rescue Team, and workers/ family at the scene worked for 4 hours to free the trapped person. The trapped individual was located beneath several feet of soybeans and removed. Unfortunately, they succumbed to their injuries while on scene.

A recovery was made around 3 PM. The Lake County Coroner was dispatched to Kalvaitis Farms and identified the deceased as Mark Childress, 45, of Hebron.

Also on standby at the scene was Lutheran Air Ambulance, according to Lake County Homeland Security.