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Tri States Grain Conditioning
In addition to teaching first responders and EMT students locally, he’s spoken at a number of national conferences in places such as Des Moines, Duluth, Minn., and Las Vegas. He’s probably trained 200-300 students in EMT classes; and attendance at his seminars at national conferences can be anywhere from 100-500 people. “The teaching part of it is meaningful when the student finally realizes how important our efforts are. It just tickles me and it’s really fulfilling when that light bulb goes on and they understand why we do things the way we do it. Being a teacher for 30-plus years, I think we’ve impacted a lot of people.” People ask him why he’d need to speak about ag safety in places such as Las Vegas. “Well, they’ve got tractors and augers and bins – the purpose might be different, but when an emergency happens, the response is the same as what we’d do here. There’s so many lines of work where you can have a PTO engagement or a tractor rollover, a grain bin entrapment or a chemical accident.”
John said, “There are a lot people who know more about it than I do, but they don’t like to speak in public. I have a way of presenting the information that people respond to.” Every season on the farm brings its own set of risks. “In spring, I worry about grain bin entrapments because people are taking corn and beans out of bins that have been sitting there for four or five months. If the grain was put in at the wrong moisture, we have a tendency to have more problems at that point. Grain bin entrapments are a huge thing in March and April.”
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Age Media Qtr Page Color 1-8-20.pdf 1 1/8/2020 11:21:34 AM An aerial view of the Hansen farm near Granville.
