Each year the Agricultural Safety and Health program highlights a safety topic important to the everyday lives of farm families. Join us to learn about the hazards of riding lawn mowers. An agricultural rescue demonstration will take place to help prepare first responders. Student clubs will demonstrate their new builds for competition. The Farm Safety Demonstration Area (SD) will also be used by commercial drone companies to demonstrate the safe use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
See the Lawnmower Safety Demo at Ag Progress Days
The Penn State Agricultural Safety and Health program highlights a safety topic important to everyday lives. Join us to learn about the hazards of riding lawnmowers, which are used on farms and by homeowners.
On Tuesday and Thursday (2 times a day), the team will introduce lawnmower dangers and best practices given current technology and demonstrate the research-extension modifications, including a vision-based shut-off system and a toolkit for lawnmower owners.
On Wednesday, RescueTechs LLC and Martinsburg Volunteer Fire Company will do 2 demos of a staged ag rescue emergency to show how first responders approach the scene to properly manage a tractor rollover incident.
PSU College of Medicine and Geisinger Health will provide Stop the Bleed training daily. After completing the training, families will receive a free Stop the Bleed kit (while supplies last).
The Penn State Pullers, a student engineering design team based out of Penn State's Ag and Biological Engineering program, will highlight the ¼ scale tractor they designed and built for a ¼ Scale Tractor Student Design Competition at an international agricultural engineering conference. They will do a daily demonstration.
CANCELLED-The Penn State AgriBot Club, another student group, will highlight the robot automated through artificial intelligence that they built for the competition at an international agricultural engineering conference. DEMONSTRATION CANCELLED as of 8.5.25
Visit the Ag Safety tent for free practical solutions to help increase the visibility of farm equipment on roads and children on the farm. We have Slow Moving Vehicle (SMV) emblems for equipment, PTO shields, hearing protection, and high visibility shirts/vests for children (while supplies last).
Farm Safety Demonstration Area on Demo Alley
Tuesday, Aug 12
10:00 AM – Lawnmower Safety
10:30 AM – Stop the Bleed Training
12:00 PM – Lawnmower Safety
1:00 PM - Stop the Bleed Training
2:00 PM– PSU Pullers Presentation and Demonstration
Wednesday, August 13
9:30 AM – Stop the Bleed Training
11:00 AM – Demonstration: Agricultural Rescue
12:30 PM – Stop the Bleed Training
1:00 PM – Demonstration: Agricultural Rescue
2:30 PM – PSU Pullers Presentation and Demonstration
Thursday, August 14
10:00 AM – Lawnmower Safety
10:30 AM – Stop the Bleed Training
12:00 PM – Lawnmower Safety
1:00 PM - Stop the Bleed Training
2:00 PM– PSU Pullers Presentation and Demonstration
2026 Event Information
Dates
August 11, Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
August 12, Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
August 13, Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location
Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center
2710 W. Pine Grove Road
Pennsylvania Furnace, PA 16865
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2026 Event Information
Dates
August 11, Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
August 12, Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
August 13, Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location
Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center
2710 W. Pine Grove Road
Pennsylvania Furnace, PA 16865
Social Media
