NOTE: Media is invited to attend the clinic for photos and interviews.
What animal found on the farm is loud enough to damage your hearing? Are earmuffs more effective than earplugs? Do you know how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss? Do you have hearing loss? What types of hearing protection should I use?
To offer answers to those questions and much more information, appointments can be made for a Hearing Clinic for Farmers which is being held for the ratepayers of the R.M. of Gull Lake #139 on Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 from 9:00 am- 4 pm at the RM Office in Gull Lake, SK. To book an appointment please call (306) 672-4430.
The clinic will include a visual inspection of the ear canal and ear drum and a hearing screening with explanation of those results. Participants will be shown how to insert earplugs and will receive information to take home. When necessary, referrals are made. Hearing aids are not sold at the clinic. Agriculture health and safety resources and programs will also be reviewed.
“On the farm, there are many noises including those from augers, tractors, shotguns and squealing hogs at feeding time that can damage your hearing”, says Kendra Ulmer, Nurse and Clinic Director for the Agricultural Health and Safety Network, at the Canadian Centre For Rural and Agricultural Health, University of Saskatchewan.
The clinic is being offered to RM #139 ratepayers because they are members of the Agricultural Health and Safety Network and is co-sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health and Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture.
For additional information regarding this release, please contact:
Kendra Ulmer, RN , Manager and Clinical Director
Agriculture Health and Safety Network
Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health
(306) 966-6643
e-mail: aghealthandsafety@usask.ca
media hearing letter RM #139