Safety
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.