Safety
Just having chains with you makes you feel better when the white stuff starts accumulating.
Fred Whitford, director of Purdue Pesticide Programs, isn’t one to mince words – and he certainly didn’t when talking about truck accidents with attendees of the 2016 Farm Journal Corn College.
The agriculture industry is placing its youth directly in harm’s way through the use of teenagers as victim participants in grain entrapment rescue demonstrations, and the practice is a one-way road to serious injury or death.
Innovations range from tractors to combine technologies.
As a new crop goes in the bin, be mindful of storage best practices and keep safety top of mind.
Safety tips to head to the field at harvest.
Dry weather has led to combine fires scarring acres this fall.
Staying diligent means staying safe—and protecting your hard work from fire
Rise of ‘hobby farms’ means more untrained growers get maimed, killed
“All I could see was his head.": Minnesota Farmer Reflects on Grain Bin Rescue
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue talks with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem about the importance of safety when working with grain bins on farms and agribusinesses.
“What we’ve learned from the farmers we can’t measure– it’s the most important thing for us in designing this robot,” Ben Johnson says.
On August 22, fire departments in and around Moravia, Iowa responded to a grain bin entrapment. The man who was trapped, along with those who rescued him, explain everything they did to successfully rescue Wilson.
Getting rid of your unused pesticides or pesticide containers takes time and proper steps. As such, it can take awhile to get to the top of your to-do list.
Gold Eagle Cooperative in Hardy, Iowa suffered a scare on Tuesday afternoon when the bin under its fertilizer building exploded.
UNL researchers found that planting, harvest and calving season shave off 28 minutes of a farmer’s sleep each night, while fewer than 7.5 hours increases their risk of injury by 61%.
We’ve all had one of those horrible, no good, very bad days.
Farmers, livestock producers and others in the agriculture industry are part of core skin cancer statistics related to outdoor work, consistently ranking highest in overall sun exposure.
Skin cancer is the single most common cancer in the United States and the rising number of incidents is staggering.
There is a big ‘ick’ factor with this tick. Hundreds can be found on a person after a 30- to 60-second ATV ride through an infested field, says one researcher. While any animal can provide a meal, they prefer cattle.
For perspective, there were fewer mining-related fatalities (24) than so called confined-space fatalities (39) documented in 2019.
Creating a safety culture at your workplace requires a proactive safety attitude. Consider these tips to get workers onboard.
Loading and unloading farm equipment is a dangerous process that requires great attention to complete safely
According to the report, there were eight-grain dust explosions in 2020, resulting in zero fatalities and nine injuries.
Farmers over the age of 60 also see fatalities rise, says new report.
In a split second one life ended, and dozens of lives would never be the same. Ralph Griesbaum was practically born operating a tractor, it was like breathing, but hazards are always present in ag operations.
FAA: Farm equipment radio interference threatens air traffic