Safety
Although the industry has come a long way when it comes to farm safety, about every three days, a child dies in an ag-related incident, and each day, 33 children are injured. Farm safety expert Barbara Lee weighs in.
Purdue reported 23 fatalities related to grain bin entrapment in 2019. These stories haunted a city-dwelling film producer, Sam Goldberg, prompting him to share the dangers in putting food on the world’s table.
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