Peter Main

Although not a particularly nice subject to write about, manure is a big issue in farming and agricultural related work, and has potential to cause significant damage to both land and water.Such...

Buying a tractor from a major manufacturer has many of the same principles and drawbacks as when buying a new or second-hand car. Dealerships of tractor manufacturers will normally offer for sale new...

The short answer is yes, given that the cost of many tractors runs into thousands of dollars, some of the big ones costing upwards of 60 - $70,000 US. For many people the need for a tractor or some...

The transition from paper to digital hat in many ways changed both the format and the understanding of what a proposal form is in the context of car insurance. Pre internet, people would have to fill...

Any individual who has had to purchase car insurance may well have discovered huge discrepancies in the various quotations they are asked by different insurance companies. This has historically always...

Most farms or agricultural complexes will have a significant amount of materials, commonly referred to as trash, that will need to be disposed of.Quite often this is done by way of burning it, as it...

The use of pesticides is a major issue in farm safety, for a number of different reasons. Pesticides are used widely in all types of agricultural settings, most mostly farms, orchards, forests...

Whilst strict regulations had been brought in to stop the exploitation of children and young people in the workplace, farming has a fairly unique environment that does allow for them to do a different...

When thinking in terms of any type of health and safety work or issues, the term environment is perhaps one of the key elements. The type of environment that someone works in will to a large extent...

Most tractors, and agricultural machinery on a farm will use a wide variety of different implements and attachments to do the different types of work that the farm operates on.Tractors will...

Agriculture plays a major part in most economies of the world, none more so than the United States. The federal government plays a huge part in the development and practices within the industry, by...

The federal government in the United States has a special place in being able to provide both federal and local advice and help with specific focus on the agricultural industry. This applies both to...

Owning or operating a farm, as well as working on it, poses real challenges in terms of understanding the nature of risk, the implications in terms of injury or fatality of certain risks, and how best...

Any assessment of farm safety takes into account, or should take into account, the type of risks that may be inherent in the farm, its land or its general operations.This risk assessment is normally...

Any understanding of farm safety can only really be based on some type of risk management process, either done in a formal sense, or by some other more experiential way.However the risk management...