WILLIAMSBURG — Monday marks the start of Nationwide Farm Security Week.
Every day of the week has a theme targeted on totally different points of agricultural security. Monday’s theme was highway security — which is a far-reaching subject for each farmers and most people.
“We’re uncovered to highway journey with our combines, actually all of our operational gear that we use to plat and harvest,” Callaway County farmer Dennis Shramek stated.
Farm security encompasses many matters; grain bin security, tractor and ATV rollovers. However Shramek is aware of for an space with winding gravel roads throughout small hills, car collisions keep high of thoughts.
The College of Nebraska has revealed a non-official tally of all farm-related fatalities and accidents in Missouri from 2012 to 2020.
“We’re very acutely aware of security on the highway, and we need to shield the folks round us,” Shramek stated. “We yield to them the perfect we will, we run on the shoulders — the place the roads are slim — and once we get a gaggle of automobiles behind us we are going to discover a spot to pullover and let the automobiles round.”
Shramek hopes extra public consciousness about farm security saves lives but in addition permits farmers to maintain enterprise going extra effectively.
“We obtained a job to do,” he stated. “We’re feeding the nation and serving to gas the nation, with the ethanol, so we need to do all we will to be protected and hold others protected as properly.”
Harvest season, when farmers harvest their row crops, is occurring any day now for many farmers. It is going to proceed via November. Shramek stated realizing find out how to share the highway is very necessary earlier than this busy season.