BENTON AG Plus
Sauk Rapids Herald | Saturday, October 15, 2022
PPE for you, me
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Serving rural Benton, Morrison, Mille Lacs and Kanabec counties
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UNIVERSITY OF MN EXTENSION DANA ADAMS
In the hustle and bustle of harvest it is all too easy to forget your personal protective equipment. It gets left on the kitchen table, inside the front door or on the passenger seat of the farm truck. PPE is there for you to use to protect your skin, airways and vision, just to name a few. Using the right combo of PPE, when necessary, can help control the uncontrollable. This article can act as a reminder of both the big and small hazards on your operation and what you can do to keep yourself, your family and those around you safe.
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PHOTOS BY GRACE JEURISSEN
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(Right)The Honer family – Donna, (from left) Scott, Toni and Ava – have a large variety of animals on their farm near Rockville. The purpose of purchasing a place in the country was to give Donna and Ava an opportunity to raise animals and have a wholesome country living experience.
All part of the
Honer herd
Family open hearts to animal variety
BY GRACE JEURISSEN | STAFF WRITER Being part of a pack of wolves usually means they are all wolves. But for the Honer herd, every being has a place, big or small, hairy or scaley. For the Honers, animals have always been part of the family, even before they moved to a small farm site in rural Stearns
County. “My parents were always supportive of having animals for my sister and I to care for,” Donna Honer said. “We had rabbits when we lived in town – a lot of rabbits. What this property did was just allow us to share our love for animals on a larger, more diverse scale.” Honer’s parents, Scott and Toni Honer, though not growing up with a heavy rural background, stressed the importance of responsibility of animal care to both Honer and her sister, Ava. Because the girls had
been showing rabbits for some time before expanding the variety of animals under their care, they knew just how much work it would be to care for more. Honer noted that because of her parents’ open hearts to animals and willingness to absorb the pets of others, they often took back rabbits they sold if the families did not want the responsibility of caring for the animals they had purchased.
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