MORGAN, Minn.-Ruth Meirick was like most members of most farm families: There was too much work to do to worry about safety. Then, "it just happened." Her brother-in-law was moving a bale of hay and ...

Driving up the steep hill to the 280-acre Webcrest Farm in Bovina, the eye scans the horizon of slopes and valleys. “This is not Kansas,” said Dr. John May, director of New York Center for ...

GREENVILLE, Wis.—Thirteen-year-old Duane “Dewey” Ashauer was using a light tractor to pull an end loader from the mud when it flipped, killing him instantly. Farm safety experts say his death and many ...

Bill Furlong of Iowa City takes ROPS seriously. ROPS stands for “Rollover Protection Structure.” Basically, it’s a heavy-duty roll bar and seat belt installed on older farm tractors that Furlong says ...

Tractors that do not have a safety roll bar are potentially deadly. Without one, the tractor shown here would have surely crushed this mannequin. It's important to consider the height of your tractor ...

This older tractor shows how a roll bar was added to increase the safety of the tractor operator. Some funding is available in Iowa to help farmers pay for adding the safety bar to older tractors.

ST. PAUL-Minnesota is celebrating Farm Safety and Health Week Sept. 18-24, just months after a major state breakthrough in incentivizing tractor safety. A volunteer Rollover Protective Structures ...

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The leading cause of death on farms is tractor rollovers and overturns. That's why one of the most important safety features on a tractor is a roll bar. But most tractors don't have them. "If a ...

Tractors are used widely on the farm and in industry. Few people can deny that tractors are powerful, heavy pieces of equipment that can do in a short time what would take a human a great deal of time ...