It is common knowledge quality harvested grain placed in storage, coupled with best management practices caring for grain, yields quality grain leaving storage for market. Inversely, either poor quality grain being placed in storage or poor management practices caring for grain leads to spoiled grain leaving storage.
Getting spoiled grain out of storage always poses an increased safety risk for entrapment and suffocation to a farm operator and worker. There are years of documentation that illustrate the direct connection from spoiled grain leaving storage to a tragic grain entrapment and the resulting fatality.
“Grain’s tremendous force that holds victims in grain and the speed that entrapment occurs are often misunderstood,” said Charles Schwab, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering with Iowa State University Extension.
Read the full story from the East Moline, IL, Dispatch-Argus here → Make safety top priority when emptying grain bins