On busy farms, if you’re not working, then you’ve no business being there

'This is a workplace, it is not a playground, and in so many ways it is romanticised and a lot of people look at it through rose-tinted nostalgia'

Establishing rules and boundaries around accessing the farm is very important and people should take sensible and cautious approaches to children’s exposure to farms.

When the farm is busy, “if you’re not working, then you’ve no business being there”, stressed Alma Jordan, founder of AgriKids, a farm safety educational platform for children.

Establishing rules and boundaries around accessing the farm is very important at this time of year, Ms Jordan said, as she called for people to take sensible and cautious approaches to children’s exposure to farms.