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Biadasz family donates to manure gas monitoring program

The Biadasz family presents a donation to the National Farm Medicine Center for a 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.  The donation helps pay for portable gas monitor rebates, and Bendixen hopes the new rebate program is an incentive for farmers to take the extra precaution.  Monitors can also be rented.

Mike Biadasz and 16 dairy cattle were overcome by poisonous gas when the manure pit was agitated last August 15th.

 

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