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.

Cleaning A Flooded Well

Drinking the water from a flooded well can make you sick. Have the well cleaned and disinfected to make sure the water is safe.

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Breaking the stigma of farmer suicides

Dairy farmer Keith Henneman held the depth of his discouragement inside, and his sudden death came as a shock to his family. He was 29.

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Tractor Safety And Kids

Kids are a great help on the farm when they can drive the tractor. Just make sure they’re ready first.

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Machinery Insider

Sizing up semis

By Machinery Insider

The semitrailer has become the transportation workhorse of choice in farming.

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Crops

Developing a strategy to reduce soil compaction

By Successful Farming TV Show

When soil suffers compaction, myriad challenges arise. On the surface, appearances can be deceiving on the extend of the damage.

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All Around the Farm

Heavy-duty welding boom has reach

By All Around the Farm

With a 20-foot-long jib boom and rolling dolly, the wire feeder and gun will reach outside the shop and inside a trailer.

Private well class

Every private well owner needs to make sure their water is safe, but do you know how the well works? You can learn by going to “private well class”.

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WATCH: 9 tips for coping with farm stress

Here are nine tips for coping with the stress farms and ranches around the country are experiencing.

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9 tips for coping with farm stress

When farmers are healthy, their farms may be more productive, explains psychologist and farmer Michael Rosmann.

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Firefighters and farmers tackle safety together

When firefighters and farmers work together, they can all be better prepared in case of an emergency. See how you can team up with your local fire department to improve farm safety.

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Who am I if I'm not a farmer anymore?

Challenging times will force some farmers to stop farming. Navigating the change can be an emotional rollercoaster.

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Respiratory health takes center stage

Masks that protect farmers and ranchers are also desperately needed by healthcare workers battling COVID-19. Here’s what to do if you need protection.

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Tip of the Day

Farmer-Designed Planter Wheel Storage

When the bearings in a closing or gauge wheel go, I switch the broken wheel for a new one in five minutes and replace the bearings in the... read more