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Biadasz family donates to manure gas monitoring program
A family from Amherst, Wisconsin that lost a farmer to manure gas exposure has donated 40-thousand dollars towards a gas monitoring program. The Mike Biadasz Farm Safety and Education Memorial Fund presented the money to the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin Friday.
Mike’s father Bob Biadasz says farmers need to know the dangers of working around manure pits. “From the day Mike and I talked about putting the manure pit on our farm to the day Mike died, no one ever mentioned a word about an open manure pit (and) to be cautious of gases.”
National Farm Medicine Center researcher Casper Bendixsen says gas monitoring devices are expensive to purchase or rent to use just a few times a year.
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