Technology For Farm Safety
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
A 2019 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that agriculture is still the most dangerous industry in America, with 23.1 deaths per 100,000 workers. Can technology help? Crover, an automated grain storage management system, is just one example of an innovation made with safety in mind, says chief revenue officer, Sarah Ostberg.
Ostberg... "Sadly every single time I speak in front of a conference or I'm at somewhere, somebody comes up to me and tells me a devastating story that they lost a loved one on the grain. As you know, it's extremely dangerous for grain operators to be going on the bulk. It's tiresome too. I don't know if you've ever stood on grain before, but that's really hard work. So props to the people that are doing it every single day. So it really just empowers us even more to get this technology out to let people know, hey, there is Crover now. You don't have to go on it. It's gonna collect temperature, moisture, c2, and it's fully autonomous as well. So we have two versions. You can manually control the robot, or you can have it completely go autonomous, and it can move through the grain. It's gonna work almost like a Roomba vacuum."
Crover was founded in 2018 to make grain management smarter, safer, and more sustainable.
