Grain bin safety will be back prominently on display at the Nebraska State Fair this year – thanks to Mid-Plains Community College’s Director of Fire Sciences Tim Zehnder. For the second year, Zehnder ...

MANKATO — Michele Gran sat in front of hundreds of farmers and ag students holding up a photo. “This is not a statistic, this is our son. This is our son Landon. He was 18 years old. He would have ...

OPI has introduced a handheld grain monitoring gadget, Blue Lite, for what it is calling “tech-averse farmers who want to take a first step toward automated data collection.” “It’s a light, simplified ...

In Minnesota this month, three people have been killed in grain-bin related incidents. Those deaths hit home for Tim Zehnder, Mid-Plains Community College Director of Fire Sciences and former ...

Weevils are grain devouring pests farmers don't want to see in their storage bins.But they may actually welcome a robotic one. "We call this the Grain Weevil because it scurries across the top of the ...