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FARMERS HAVE been asked to re-examine safety measures at a time of year when they are busy harvesting, and children are around the farmyard.

Some 18 people have died in farm mishaps already this year, compared with 11 for the whole of 2009. Tractors and machinery accounted for 10 of those deaths, while three fatalities were related to tree felling or timber.