Safety
With school out and more youth heading into summer farm work, now is the time to put safety checks in place before kids take on responsibilities on the farm.
Fewer explosions but higher fatalities: Here is what the latest Purdue report says you must keep top of mind to protect your team.
About a mile after he passed a car on fire, Chad Rieck noticed smoke rolling out of his trailer. Within a minute or two, his trailer carrying gilts back from Aksarben was on fire.
Learn several inexpensive, easy ways that you can keep yourself, your family members and employees, and your neighbors safe this fall harvest season.
Tom Ritter was just weeks away from his 51st harvest, but an everyday task on the farm of cleaning out a grain bin with a vac turned fatal as a shelf of corn caved in on him in the bin.
The blazing summer temperatures are an urgent reminder to farmers and ranchers who work outside to to pay attention to their bodies and do everything they can to protect themselves from heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
Another Chinese researcher has been detained by federal agents for unlawfully shipping roundworms into the U.S. for work she planned to conduct at a University of Michigan laboratory
On Nov. 19, 2023, Iowa farmer Joe Rempe suffered severe injuries from an anhydrous leak while in the field. His fiance, Kendra Vander Leest, not only helped save Joe, but she’s been caring for him since.