This is a K. C. C. I. Editorial. I'm the son of a farmer. My father farmed and my grandfather before him and now my brother works the land when you grow up in a farm family. You learn pretty quickly ...

Travis Muller, 30, was cleaning out a grain bin when his legs got caught up in the power sweep auger. At approximately 3:06 p.m., Cottonwood County Dispatch received a 911 call about the incident.

EDGEWOOD — Grain bin fatalities are a leading accidental cause of premature death among farmers. According to Purdue University, about 39 grain-entrapment cases across the country occurred in 2024, a ...

A man's legs were amputated at a Twin Cities hospital after they were mangled in a grain bin auger in southwestern Minnesota, officials and family said Monday. The incident occurred midafternoon ...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — The quick actions of firefighters, EMS and the St. Charles County farming community stopped a bad situation from getting much worse, according to the family of a recently ...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — A teenager was injured after becoming stuck in a grain bin auger Thursday afternoon in St. Charles County. St. Charles County Ambulance District spokesperson Kyle Gaines said ...

If a farmer falls into a bin with flowing shelled corn, wheat, oats, sunflower seeds or barley, they might sink to their knees and be unable to free themselves in the time it took to read this ...

PRESTON — Grain bin deaths are a horrible mixture of heat, suffocation and compression in a dark dusty space. The difference between saving a farmer and tragedy can be a matter of minutes. Farmers go ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With harvest season upon us, residents in Northwest Missouri might frequently see big, silver units while driving down the highway. Grain bins are used to store ...

Bay County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to Ittner Bean and Grain in Auburn on Tuesday after a 44-year-old employee fell into an auger and suffered a severe leg injury. The man was airlifted ...

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 ...

Sep. 25—WINDOM, Minn. — A Windom man was severely injured Sunday, Sept. 24, after his legs got caught in a power sweep auger of a grain bin. Travis Muller, 30, was cleaning out a grain bin when his ...