Steve Wettschurack, grain safety specialist in the department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, has conducted many schools across the country instructing firefighters and other first-responders in the proper techniques for rescuing in cases of grain entrapment. Successful Farming magazine is running a story on one of those schools, Winside, Nebraska, in the Family section (page 58) of the February issue.

Two of our students are featured in ASABE's Resource Magazine.

Typical preventive maintenance practices with hydraulic hose assemblies often involve a scheduled, time-based replacement. Testing, however, shows that the replaced hoses typically would have more than 50% longer life.