Health and Safety

From the farm shop to the field, follow these farm safety tips to keep yourself, employees, and your family safe. This section includes safety tips for transportation, grain bins, and the farm shop as well as health information.

Silo Gas Dangers

After you’ve filled the silo, stay out of it for a few weeks. The silage fermentation process builds gasses that are hazardous to your health.

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Farmer mental health deserves your attention

Farmers are particularly vulnerable to suicide.

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Gravity Flow Wagon Safety

During harvest season, keep your kids off the gravity flow wagon. It’s full of grain that can tragically suck them down in seconds.

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Successful Farming TV Show

RARE IH 7288 and 7488 Tractors

By Successful Farming TV Show

Dave Mowitz heads to Marshalltown, Iowa, to check out Gary Ballard’s 7288 and 7488 tractors

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Women in Agriculture

Pod Blasting Peanuts

By Women in Agriculture

When a crop grows underground, how do farmers know when it’s time to dig?

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Successful Farming TV Show

RARE IH 7288 and 7488 Tractors

By Ageless Iron

Dave Mowitz heads to Marshalltown, Iowa, to check out Gary Ballard’s 7288 and 7488 tractors

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Tip of the Day

Vise attachment for hitch completes a shop on wheels

I realized that my farm’s service truck had all the tooling my shop had (a welder, torch, fuel supply, air, chop saws, grinders, etc.), but... read more