Hope everyone's doing well, stay safe. Hopefully everybody's had a chance to get out and enjoy the first couple of days or fall. Really nice weather, least here and eastern part of Virginia, hopefully that's the same throughout the state. Pleased to be joined this morning by Mr. dance Wofford program associated with virginia cooperative extension. Dan was just talking about his long extensive career and teaching agricultural programs and being with Virginia Tech. So we're really fortunate to have day and join us this morning and he's going to share some updates and comments on equipment safety and farm safety is an effort here, as those of you may or may not know, this week is actually national farm safety week and Health Week is a national initiative that's put forward this week that we're currently in right now, which would be September 20th to the 26, there's national foreign Safety Week. So in an effort to coincide with that and help provide some information, we've asked and account for them and speak today on nom equipment safety, keeping everyone safe on the farm. And hopefully everyone can take a few moments from the really busy harvest schedules and just listen to some of these comments to hopefully prevent any unfortunate mistakes or accidents on the form. So so we just thank Dan for joining us this morning. Thank everyone else that's on the line with us as small and and without further ado, Dan, we appreciate you joining us and that the floor is yours. More than folks. As Robbie said, I'm from Virginia Tech, but don't hold that against me. I'm here today to talk about safety, especially this time of year and harvest time. And as Robbie timer Robbie earlier, we have kind of a unique situation. Normally, during harvest time, if you have children or grandchildren home, they go off to school and the harvesting takes place while they're gone up this year with a lot of that mixed schedules, hybrid schedule schools have we have children at home now in the daytime, and I have grandchildren now there's daimon School and they might get done the school in an hour or so. And then Dad, Grandpa, Pompeians that, hey, are you done with your studies? And they said, Yeah, we're done. Can we go help you? And we're getting a lot more children and young adults, teenagers on the farm during harvesting in the day time, before kids would go off to school, come home, then go out to the field, they might be out there a few hours and then caveat. Now we haven't yet put kids you out there all day long. And the first thing I want to talk about is keeping children safe. I've got some real startling statistics enough. And I want to talk about in this morning because we have a lot of accidents on the farm. Each year, about 400 people boarded farmers. And that includes the children are hurt or excuse me, or kill off far as take with kids. The first thing I want to throw out. And these are the things that start with people. My wife and I are a great disagreement with my daughter this morning. And it's hard to imagine that every child in the United States dice one every three days of an accident on the farm. But if we break that down, as I say, every three days in the United States, a child was killed on the farm. We repeat that one more time. It's so startling. A child dies. One every three days. That's a 100 kids that are killed on the farm. And again, that's to be very startling. I know I was talking to my daughter this morning, is a school teacher. And her die we're going back and forth on the phone. She said Dad, but I grew up, I used to set on grandpa's lap. And I imagine I have a few grand pause out here this morning that exist today that are saying, Yeah, probably. I mean, one of my kids settled by lapsed on time when I was farming. Have a twin brother and him and I taught AT two years of agriculture. He taught 43, I taught 39. My earliest memories of my brother or sitting on the back of an ATN forward. Now that dates me, you out there with my twin brother, both our standing orthonormal, three-point hitch up. Luckily nobody got hurt. A few years back, my wife and I got into an argument. She had a picture of her husband carrying her kids and the front end loader of his tractor. And I was going off the wall saying that stage and o does not dangerous at so q. We have a tradition. Traditions are very hard to break. In the United States, where we kids help out on the farm. We've been doing that for hundreds of years. But we need if they're going to do that, we need to exercise some safety. The number one way children get hurt on the farm is somebody packs over with a tractor or a piece of equipment. One child with day in the United States is injured by grandma or grandpa or dad or mom back and them over over the top them with a writing more. A few years ago. Where we live, we had a child that was backed by a grandpa mangled her leg. Terrible situation. What would you feel like if you over a grandchild or a child? Of things that we need to do to prevent data real settle. A lot of times we have to just say, hey, you need to stand a house. Make sure somebody's watching them. It doesn't take but a second for that. Grandma, grandpa, mom or dad. Don't think the kids are here and they're not, you know, most of the people and the situation I was talking about, grandpa was going I wish it could have been me. I lived my life. Pretty well injury-free, where this girl is gonna have a mango. She ended up losing her leg. Handicapped or life the rest of our time here on earth. Folks, watch your children, your grandchildren, make sure they're somewhere else. This year is very different than yours in the past, like I said, years in the past. Hydro at school. I taught high school agriculture, as I say, 3940 years. And it'll kid to get off the bus and come up and say, Well, after I leave, I'm gonna go home help on the farm. That time was very little compared to what it is now. A lot of these hybrid classes that kids can take, you know, when and where they want to during the day time. And then they can head out and work on the farm. We're gonna have a lot more kids on the farms. So we're going to have to make sure that that is an important step. Now, we're going to leave that and move into the overall scheme of things. As far as injuries, as I said earlier, about 400 farmers are killed each year on the farm. Another thing that we're going to have to look at it then this is not kind of dealing with any specific pieces of equipment. Are the injuries in confined spaces, injuries where we get people suffocating and great bands are silos. Again up where I live a couple of years ago, we had a whole family that was killed with a silo because it went up. One got caught in the grain, another one went up, try to get them out. Tried to get another one out. Enough. Yeah. Once asylum and the whole family was lost, precautions have to be taken to make sure again, both of these things we've talked about so far, we haven't really talked about machinery. It just the hazard or working on the farm. Go up in a silo. Each year in the United States. About 60 people working in a silo ON a great band where they get caught in it, it sucks updated and they end up being fatalities. Again. When I was looking at a couple of days ago where 16 year old, a 13-year-old boy, Then another one, a 19-year-old boy. And let me say, well, nine status of an adult. You ever teach a class, a senior, you know, it's they're not all adults. And it doesn't take a second for a person to be sucked down at one of those bins. Other things we need to look at, this is just general safety on the farm. And we see this again this time a year, harvest year, I can think of a couple last year in the county over from us. Older farmer, older than me, he was up in the seventies. Got up. Our combined And torn got caught in the headers. He went down, then turned to combined off. Everything was still running. He was trying to get stocks, corn out of the header. Holy men crushed him. His grandson. Again, as farmers get older, we see a lot of grandsons came up, pull up with a pickup truck and found his granddad dead in the header. Never try to unplug anything with the machine or whatever it is of. Hay bales, Battered Wife down bailing hay. The husband is out there working on the Baylor. The Baylor still running and there's a clog in it. He reaches up here, he gets pulled into the Baylor. His ally friends over to help him. Neighbors find both of them dead in the Baylor. Always make sure that you turn off the equipment, whatever you work on, whether it be a combine tractor, pay Baylor. Make sure that you turn these off before you start working all of lawnmowers. And again, I'm talking about machine. You have a friend. Several years ago she was out in her backyard. More got clogged. Show reached down under it, took off one finger. Your index finger? Ten years later. Same thing happens. She reaches that clogs up, she reaches down. Same hand. Took off the other figure next to it. Always turn things off if you're going to machinery off, if you want to work with them. Always turn things off of. Another thing that we need to look at. And again, we're talking about harvest season now. Folks, take some time to rest anytime would we start making mistakes is when we're tired. And far ridge are notorious for putting in the hours. I grew up on a farm in Missouri up north of the river Missouri. Remember not the Potomac out there. You're not going to words. And my mother always used to laugh that one day there was up formats and he needed some lunch so small that walked over in the field. Take lunch. And she walked back and we'll use at a time. And a couple rams out there. One of the Rams decided to keep mom around for a while because model was walking back from Dad and the ram would come up and smack or in the behind. And she ended up spending all day waiting for data to get down with empowerment. Folks take some time, take some time off. And relax. You out there with a combined go back to our kids good. Tractor. Anytime you have a cab on a piece of equipment, you're right there in the cab. Make sure nobody's in there with you unless you got an extra seat. Because they're going again that get jostled around, bone up against things if they're not secure in there. What the major accidents and again, we're talking about just general machinery. Is PTO shaft, the power kickoff shaft. Grown up again. I had a good friend. And covering your Darwinist. Didn't he didn't have any arms. This was back before they had the shields on the PTO shaft. We got caught up in the PTO chef and a jerk both his arms off. And again, we talk about we can we can drive would reverse, but we can't make time go in reverse. We care that boys WHO his whole life, that young man, now an old man, has bid without arms. Because I'm just a split second mistake that evade that folks want to talk about another thing here, which is real importance. And then I'll talk a little bit on tractors. And that's moving equipment. Moving equipment from place to place. Now, tractors normally run about between 1020 miles an hour. You're driving in a car or a truck there going 5060 miles an hour. It doesn't take very long for that car to catch up with the attractor. Yeah. I've got one of the newer vehicles, new new pickup and is equipped with the collision avoidance. And it was so cool a couple days ago I was driving around, I think, to the college form. All of a sudden the break start coming in on the car or my pick up because the radar sensors could sends me coming up so quickly but behind the vehicle, in front of a vehicle. But nevertheless, my brakes automatically went on. My screen went blank saying that I'm the collision avoidance folks, that's really nice, but we didn't have to just last couple years. First thing that you need to think about is when you got to move that piece of equipment, do your life's work to your flashers work. Does the vehicle have those? Now we see a lot of the egg of that wildfire equipment out there, that 50 years old. Granada High School for 50 years. And that then suburb had set up debt. We gotta vehicles out there that 70 years. Oh, make sure those flashers work. Make sure you have that small, slow moving the upper sign. If your polio wagon or another piece of equipment behind you, make sure that that SMV sign is on their watch when you're driving? I always thought it was made when I go enrichment, I have kids, grandkids. Enrichment in the sun comes up earlier than it does to us over the mountains. Because of the curvature of the earth. Get started early. Wait till the sun comes up. If you can't, don't get out on the road at night, if you can avoid it. Now, I know there's times when you have to because people get tied up with work. You want to get that last field done. You want to get everything put away. And you want to make sure people can see. I can tell stories. We had a neighbor of ours that was killed. Again, a young man 18-19 years O moon attractor at night and somebody ran into the back of it. Back before we had cabs, back before we had seatbelts and he was became a projectile in the air. Do move after night. Make sure all your lights are running. Now. Another type of accident that happens when you're moving equipment. Tractors get bigger. They get taller. You gotta cab on top. Sometimes you got equipment behind you. But while we kind of wait and see if Dan's able to come back. I did post in the chat window there for folks that are with us via x2. That's the link to the National Education Center for agricultural safeties web page. If you have a few moments, you can take a look at that link. There's a lot of really great resources there. They actually just, just recently posted along strain of safety videos on that webpage and you can find some of those. There are a lot of different stuff as Dan was mentioning on in a grain bin safety, PTO, safety, moving equipment up and down the road, ways safety were in regards to that. Just a lot of different topics as he's touched on this morning. You can find resources for that on that page. So I think Laura now see she shared that they are now. So thanks law. A lot of different stuff there. They've got some webinars and stuff that are being offered this week on all different types of safety aspects and presentation. So if you scroll down lower, you can see there those videos I was talking about about PTO safety. Tractor safety, all sorts of stuff. So this just some things to take a look at. If you run an agricultural business, more farm if you've got employees around during the winter months, the slow periods and may not be a bad idea to, you know, to just touch on some of these topics with your farm workers and, and hopefully keep everyone's safe on a farm and avoid some of these act as accidents like we've heard Dan speak of this moon. And the only thing I would mention is that there is a list of publications on our PC side of wellness and safety, and it has several publications in that arena as well. So for your use books, I'm sorry for that. I had a computer outage here as we go into the future. The virtual world sometimes really realized how dependent nor are we on computers and phones and things. And I'm glad to be back when everything went down. I was talking about moving equipment. And first of all, I want to put some of the tags off on drivers. But before I do that, I want to talk about something we need to be really concerned with, especially as tractors get taller, machinery bigger, combine to get bigger. We're going down the road. And the next thing that we know, we could power lines going across the road county over from us a couple of years ago that happened and killed the operators. You need to really watch. This is where it's good to have somebody that will drive along with you in a car or truck cannot slow down the traffic. People who coming up behind her. And you watch for those power lines. Very, very uncomfortable in 1200 volts R1 to the truck. Number one, cause of accidents on the highway with tractors going out. The sheet, we go one down is when the vehicle that you're driving makes the left-hand turns, you know, it's just like we know and are driving experience an automobile. And a sober folks can remember before it was legal to make a right-hand turn after stop. Now we pull up, we stop, we turn right. Left-hand turns have never gotten there. Well, she places they have and we make a left-hand turn. You always want to make sure that your sand enough to make that turned safely. And again, I would encourage people when you move equipment to have someone else comes in a vehicle in front or behind your both. But we all know sometimes that's not possible because we don't have enough operators to do that. Before the break there, the unintended break. We were talking about relative speed. When moving of the Jacobi. Again, you're moving a vehicle at five to ten miles an hour. You as a motorist, have gotta realize that. It's got motors. There's gonna have to take some of the responsibility to slow down when you see those flashing lights. And again, the newer vehicles. And this helps with the sensors that transversal will slow you down, or at least make you aware of, you know, that there's somebody in front of you going what slower? Those people over in eastern Virginia. You run into this quite often where people are moving machinery. Stay off. And again, we see this all the time. Man, on the interstate. Of course, we all know it's against the law. To you. I want to illustrate with a slow moving vehicle. So you're going to have to find another way to get to where you go on. Now, last thing I want to talk about before we leave is Josh, tractor safety. And I've touched on that a little bit. But we want to make sure and again, folks, I want to go back to what I talked about at the beginning of this talk. I almost said class when he taught 40 years, when I was teaching a class here this morning. So simple, thanks to look at and I want to go back to the children again, try to leave home in a safe place with somebody to make sure that they're safe. Don't go down there. And I we all have done this all over folks down the highway with the kids on our lab. You want to make sure that they are the So a place dad can't hold onto occured scram pause, can't hole on the key or if you're in an accident. I was driving down the road yesterday in my truck with my two dogs and I can't hold on to a dog, have an accident. We want to make sure that those children again are in place. Robbie. Does anybody have any That concludes my talk. Does anybody have any questions before we leave? Thank you, Dan for SHE join us and given a presentation, is any questions or comments per day in Des Moines and that again, I apologize for my computer. Go on down. That's perfectly fine. There we've all been dastardly cellularly process. I know this is a topic that most agricultural producers tend to. Can I spend a lot of time or we all take things for granted and think it hopefully we we move along and hope that it doesn't happen. But I think it's really important, as Dan said, especially now with conditions changing and lot more youth around kids around a farm, you know, people are, are really kind of put in unique situations right now with things that we've been experiencing over the past few months. So I think it's a great time to refresh some of these topics and just take a few moments to overview this stuff and see what can actually happen. So thank you for joining us. We really privilege you have any other questions or comments for for Dan this morning before we finish up? We appreciate it and thanks again for joining us. I hope everyone's a safe, please, please be safe out there during the harvest season. We certainly don't want any accidents if we can help it. So please be safe with that. If you have any questions or you would like additional training resources for your for your farm help or just grandkids, anything in general, please reach out to us. We're more than happy to give you those resources and help spread this information because it is such vital information. So with that being said, we thank everyone again for joining us this morning. Thank you, Dan. We appreciate your time. If you haven't yet. Yes, sir. And please everyone be say thank you again. If you have a moment, you could just fill out our brief evaluation at the conclusion of the program. The link is there on your screen now, it take just a few moments and let us know how we're doing. And if you have topics that are interesting to you, like more information on, please share that with us. We hope next week topic to be, the discussion will be on some amendment, land amendment. So we hope to touch on poultry litter, bio solids, those type of things. 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