Agriculture Equipment Safe Use News

AEM, National FFA Organization promote safe use of agricultural equipment

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is promoting safe use of agricultural equipment through a new awareness program – “Tune into Safety” - in partnership with the National FFA Organization (FFA). AEM kicked off the program at the recent National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, Kentucky. AEM ...

Nov. 7, 2014

By Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

EPA requires major agricultural chemical dealer to safely manage pesticides

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced settlements with two associated companies for the improper storage and containment of agricultural pesticides. Fertizona, a large fertilizer and crop protection retailer, and Compton Ag Services operate six facilities in Arizona and California subject to the enforcement actions. They have agreed to pay a total of $133,240 in civil ...

Sep. 22, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Tips for Safe Hay Baling

As growers statewide finish their first cutting of hay crops, now is a good time to do preventative maintenance tasks that can boost farm profits and protect farm workers, says a safety research associate and lecturer from Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Completing some preventative maintenance tasks on balers and other farm machinery can ...

Jun. 25, 2014

By Ohio State University

Proactive stewardship is critical in sustainable agriculture

Bayer CropScience is committed to proactive stewardship to underline the company’s strong commitment to sustainable agriculture. “We help growers around the world produce high-quality and high-yielding crops,” said Matthias Haug, Head of SeedGrowth at Bayer CropScience. “We take product stewardship very seriously, as it is important to maximize the benefits of seed ...

May 27, 2015

By Bayer CropScience AG

Experience Eaton’s Solutions that Power Construction and Agriculture at bauma China 2014

Power management company Eaton will showcase the latest solutions that are improving equipment quality, reliability, sustainability, productivity and safety in the construction and agriculture industries at bauma China 2014. The international trade fair for construction machinery is being held November 25-28 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai. Eaton’s booth, # 340, ...

Oct. 31, 2014

By Eaton Corporation

Trimble Launches First-of-its-Kind VerticalPoint RTK System for Agriculture

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has launched a world-first, patent-pending VerticalPoint RTK™ system for grade control in agriculture. VerticalPoint RTK provides significantly enhanced vertical accuracy and stability of standard single-baseline RTK systems reducing the downtime and costly delays experienced by many agriculture land improvement contractors today. VerticalPoint ...

Dec. 19, 2016

By Trimble

EVTN Announces Order for Trials from a Leading Agricultural Service Company

Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: EVTN) announced today that it has shipped a Voraxial® 2000 Separator to a premier agricultural product and service company that will commence testing and evaluation of a processing application requiring liquid/liquid separation. Large volume separation of contaminants or valuable components from water is needed in virtually every ...

Sep. 29, 2011

By Enviro Voraxialtechnology, INC. (EVTN)

WSSA Pesticide Stewardship Series: Employers Play a Central Role in Protecting Agricultural Workers and Pesticide Handlers

An employer was fined recently after an inspection showed pesticide application information wasn’t posted at the job site, and an employee applied a pesticide without safety training or personal protective equipment (PPE). The posting, safety training and PPE are all required under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS). “The WPS ...

Apr. 3, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

CropLife Asia Presents in Hanoi on ASEAN Food & Agriculture`s Sustainability, Global Competitiveness

(ACN Newswire) - As the Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture commenced today in Hanoi, Vietnam, CropLife Asia Executive Director Dr. Siang Hee Tan took the opportunity to highlight the need for crop protection regulatory harmonization in ASEAN as a means to elevate all aspects of agriculture across the region. The two-day Forum commenced today at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, bringing ...

Jun. 23, 2015

By Japan Corporate News - JCN

Learn & Live: Grain industry hazards lead to deaths, injuries each year OSHA, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, Illinois Grain Handling Safety Coalition work together to promote safe practices

Five seconds. That is how quickly a worker can become engulfed in flowing grain and be unable to get out. Sixty seconds. That is how quickly a worker can be completely submerged in flowing grain. More than half of all grain engulfments result in death by suffocation. In 2010, at least 26 U.S. workers were killed in grain engulfments, the highest number on record. Among the deaths were two ...

Jun. 18, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Georgia`s Greg Sikes Farm cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA for grain bin safety hazards; more than $127,000 in fines proposed

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Greg Sikes LLC, doing business as Greg Sikes Farm LLC, with two willful and five serious safety violations and proposed penalties of $127,400. The Brooklet farm was inspected in February upon notice that a worker had become entrapped inside a grain handling storage bin while attempting to clear soybeans from a ...

Aug. 14, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Edinburg, Texas, corn mill cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA after a worker was engulfed and fatally asphyxiated in a grain bin silo

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Azteca Milling LP in Edinburg for seven serious safety violations following a February incident when a worker inside a grain silo, attempting to move clumped corn byproducts, was engulfed, asphyxiated and then died. "The tragedy was preventable. The employer should have known that entering grain bins is ...

Aug. 21, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

LAMMA 15 – Come and Learn More About the Enduramaxx Range of Tanks

The 34th annual exhibition, LAMMA ’15, takes place at the East of England Showground, Peterborough over the 21st and 22nd January. Billed as the UK’s leading farm machinery, equipment and services show, Enduramaxx will be demonstrating a range of potable, rainwater, molasses and liquid fertiliser tanks, with capacities up to 30,000 litres. Whatever your requirements, for storing ...

Jan. 20, 2015

By ENDURAMAXX

Fall Harvest Requires Increased Focus on Safety

Working long hours without an adequate amount of sleep is just one example of how farmers can increase their risk of injury during harvest, a safety expert with Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences said. Knowing some simple safety precautions to take during harvesting is critical for farmers to reduce the potential for injuries, said Andy Bauer, ...

Nov. 13, 2014

By Ohio State University

AEM Produces New Brush Chipper Safety Manual

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has produced a new brush chipper safety manual that outlines safe equipment operation, start-up and shutdown guidelines, and maintenance precautions for a variety of brush chipper machine types. Manufacturer members working through AEM’s Environmental & Reduction Equipment Council (EREC) provided content development and review, with input ...

Jan. 27, 2016

By Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

MagneGas Deploys Manure Sterilization System to Major Hog Farm

MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MNGA), a technology company that counts among its inventions a patented process that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based fuel, announced today that it has completed construction of its latest Venturi™ sterilization system which has been deployed to a major hog farm in Indiana. The sterilization system is expected to process ...

Dec. 15, 2014

By MagneGas Corporation

CropLife Asia Makes the Case in Malaysia for Crop Protection Regulatory Harmonization for ASEAN

At the fourth ASEAN-EU Business Summit held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur today, CropLife Asia's Executive Director Dr. Siang Hee Tan spoke about the benefits a common regulatory framework for crop protection products would bring to the member states of ASEAN - among them, providing farmers with greater access to the tools and technology to ensure future food security across the ...

Aug. 23, 2015

By CropLife Asia

EPA approves two insecticides for control of invasive stink bug

On June 24, 2011 EPA approved, for emergency use, the insecticide dinotefuran (trade names Venom and Scorpion) on tree fruit to help manage populations of the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive insect that has caused extensive yield losses in tree fruit production in the mid-Atlantic region. The approval, known as an emergency exemption, applies to Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, ...

Jun. 30, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

First Bayer ForwardFarm launched in Belgium

Bayer CropScience has inaugurated the first Bayer ForwardFarm in the Belgian town of Huldenberg. The “Hof ten Bosch” farm owned by Jan and Josse Peeters brings together farmers, scientists and academia, technology partners and other players throughout the value chain, politics and regulators, as well as consumers, with the goals of exchanging agricultural know-how and forming ...

Sep. 11, 2014

By Bayer CropScience AG

EPA Settles with Hydrofarm, Inc. for Selling Unregistered Pesticides

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement with Hydrofarm, Inc. for selling two unregistered pesticides in violation of federal pesticide law. As part of the settlement, the Petaluma, Calif.-based Hydrofarm, Inc., one of the nation’s largest distributors of agricultural and hydroponic supplies, has agreed to pay $316,000 in fines and has stopped selling both ...

Apr. 3, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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