Keeping your Grain Story a Happy One: The Scoop on Grain Bins and Safety
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Keeping your Grain Story a Happy One: The Scoop on Grain Bins and Safety
Join Dave Poppel, regional sales manager with AGI, as he provides a complete walk-through of the grain bin system set up at the Ag in Motion site, which is similar to one that could be set up at any farm or grain handling facility. The system demonstrated incorporates Westeel grain bins, a NECO grain dryer, Grain Guard aeration products, and SureTrack bin monitoring and automation. It also integrates bucket elevators, drag conveyors and a Hutchinson grain pump loop.
Popell describes features and benefits of the various components in the system, beginning with AGI's most popular grain bins in western Canada, followed by the SureTrack bin monitoring system, NECO grain dryer, and other system components. Popell also explains the phases involved in designing a grain bin system like the one demonstrated.
A spike in fatalities in 2015 due to people becoming trapped in grain prompted farm groups and industry organizations to work with the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association to improve awareness and training. See the story behind the BeGrainSafe mobile training unit and hear how it is making a difference.
Be Grain Safe starts at 14:16
