This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Missouri Department of Conservation Agent for Audrain County Norman Steelman back to the microphone! Norman stops by to talk all things deer hunting and how to keep yourself, and others, safe during the hunt! Norman also talks about a special harvest program hunters can participate in called Share The Harvest, a program that gets donated deer meat to those in need of healthy food to eat through the year!  

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico. This time, Dr. Abbott and our host, Chris Newbrough, talk all things Macular Degeneration of the eye. It's an interesting talk about how this disease affects a person's vision throughout their life. 

To wrap up our special week of podcasts during National Farm Safety and Health Week looking at various topics affecting farmers, we are joined at the microphone by Arthur Center CEO Terry Mackey. In this edition, we are discussing farmers and mental health. We discuss signs they themselves can look for and their family members can look for in regards to when help might be warranted to help a farmer relieve stresses faced every day as a small business owner and operator. 

In this episode of our special week-long series on farming and agriculture during National Farm Safety and Health Week, we welcome Little Dixie Fire Protection District Station One Captain Josh Biggers to the program to discuss Confined Spaces safety and rescue. In the episode, we get into what makes a grain bin or any confined space dangerous and what farmers can do to ensure their safety if they find themselves trapped in a confined space. 

Today, we welcome University of Missouri Atmospheric Science Professor Eric Aldrich back to the podcast to talk about how weather affects crops and, believe it or not, how crops can affect weather (ever hear of Evapotranspiration?? Yeah, us either!)! This podcast is part of our week-long series highlighting different aspects of National Farm Safety and Health Week and, we can't thank Eric enough for taking the time to sit down with us and talk about an important issue facing farming today!

Today, during our special week of podcasts looking at farmer health and safety during National Farm Safety & Health Week we are concentrating on the overall general health of farmers. We welcome to the microphone Mexico doctor and Audrain County Health Department Medical Director Alex Finck; MD to discuss this important topic. During the discussion, we talk about what farmers need to look out for while working on the farm and what some symptoms of things like dehydration could be that farmers need to look out for while working. 

Welcome to our Healthy Bytes Podcast series highlighting National Farmer Safety and Health Week 2023. During this week, we will feature a podcast per day that focuses on some aspect of farmer health and safety. To kick off this week, we welcome Missouri Highway Patrol Troop F Public Information Officer Kyle Green to the studio. In this episode, we talk all things Rural Roadway and Farm Equipment Movement Safety.

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Brick City Dental Owner and Operator Dr. Chris Kollath, DDS. Dr. Kollath and our host sit down to discuss a couple of topics dealing with dental hygiene and those are the importance of dental health in children returning to school and the art of dental implants in today's dentistry world. Join us as both topics end up being quite engaging to learn about!

This week, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico. With school startups just around the corner, we thought we'd pull Dr. Abbott into the studio (all we had to say was "Microphone!") to talk about when it's time to and why you should get your child's vision checked at this important time in their lives. Dr. Abbott is full of great information presented in a fun-filled way. We also discuss what parents (and teachers) should watch out for with their kiddos as the school year begins to help identify any vision changes that may have occurred. Please join us on this important subject matter here on the Healthy Bytes Podcast!  

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Mexico Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker to talk all things Mexico parks! Chad joins us to update us on the goings on in the park system in Mexico and to also talk about why he believes parks are integral to the health of a community besides just being outdoor space that makes a city look pretty!