Farmers and farm advocates joined representatives from agricultural companies and manufacturers as well as government officials and health and safety experts in a two-day meeting May 21-22 to form the National Tractor Safety Coalition (NTSC).
There's little doubt that ag equipment rollover programs have played a significant role in the last decade in increasing the sales volume of large farm machinery, particularly combines.
Tractor rollovers are the single deadliest type of farm accident in the United States. Latest figures from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) said there are approximately 250 tractor rollover fatalities each year.
Dealers report that the way that equipment rollover programs are currently constructed leaves them with “skinny” margins at best. In some cases, it’s are a zero-sum game.
When the final count for 2010 is complete, the amount of harvested corn could be an all time record; and at a minimum, the recent harvest should rank in the top five years of harvested corn with the other top five years coming from the preceding four years. With five years of record production, one would expect supplies to be high, and demand to be slowing. But just the opposite is occurring.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at CNH Industrial’s goals for growing its precision business by 2030.
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