CropsAfter harvest is the time to review grain storage capacity, dryers, handling equipment, monitoring technology and bin safety, so that next season's crop keeps its quality and value.
AgribusinessNFU Mutual's Farm Fires report puts 2025 damage at £150m, over £400,000 a day, with east of England costs nearly tripling; the NFU wants better-funded rural fire services and a national wildfire strategy.
HealthIreland's Health and Safety Authority began a four-week inspection campaign on 5 October on work at height on farms, where 21 of 177 deaths between 2016 and 2025 were falls.
Daily lifeAgri Aware will run its Farm Safety First programme in second-level schools, with workshops and farm visits, after eight under-18s died on Irish farms in the past decade, all in incidents with farm vehicles.
LivestockHydrogen sulfide can spike during agitation and numb the sense of smell; Iowa's applicator training has lifted use of gas detectors from under 0.1% in 2018 to 7.2% in 2024.
LivestockWEDA Dammann & Westerkamp's QEW mixing tank lets the bottom bearing be changed from barn floor level in minutes, removing the need to climb into a confined space with digester gases.
LivestockIreland's agriculture minister says removing internal slurry agitation points stays a condition of TAMS 3 building grants, and points farmers to 60% safety grant aid for the work.
AgribusinessThe Canadian Agricultural Safety Association gets two years of federal funding for campaigns such as BeGrainSafe, days after a fatal equipment accident in Manitoba.
One pilot in Western Australia missed a drone by less than 30 metres and only saw it because of a car parked by the highway; the Aerial Application Association says a drone that hits a wing can travel through the aircraft and cut its control cables, and asks operators to look around, post a lookout
A MoneyGeek analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data counts 175 farmers, ranchers and agricultural managers killed at work in 2024 and 147 other agricultural workers, with transport incidents the leading cause; the fatality rate is nearly six times the national average.
Demand for the farm modernisation grants has forced ranking and selection on recent tranches; 69,593 applications were lodged across the first twelve, and tranche 14 is open until December 4.
