This study describes chores when farmers were either fatally or seriously injured and required emergency medical treatment as a result of overturns of tractors with or without rollover protective structures (ROPS). Data from the 2002 Kentucky Farm Tractor Overturn Survey were used for this study. The data were collected by a telephone survey of a population-based random sample of 6063 (7.98%) o...

The article describes an intelligent machine and tractor fleet in agriculture. also smart technologies that facilitate participants' work agricultural management maintenance systems fleets.

Agriculture is considered in all parts of the world, especially developed countries, main source livelihood and progress, it has become wrong or illogical to increase agricultural production either horizontally through reclamation new non-arable lands vertically using advanced methods if agriculture relied on primitive methods. The mechanization field concerned with, first foremost, comprehensi...

In accordance with the agricultural row-crops cultivation practices adopted in Central Asian region, machine-tractor units carry out a large number of passes through field during growing season. Consequently, individual sections fields are repeatedly affected by running systems these machines, which negatively affects soil fertility. The universal row-crop tractors used cotton production have t...

Driving is an interactive process in which the driver receives information regarding the state of the vehicle and the environment in which the vehicle is moving through visual, motion, haptic and auditory cues. The driver needs this information for successful guidance or navigation of the vehicle. A good understanding of this process requires knowledge of the sensory cues used by the driver in ...

This study with three Appalachian county agricultural education programs examined the feasibility, effectiveness, and impact of integrating a cost-effective rollover protective structure (CROPS) project into high school agricultural mechanics classes. The project aimed to (1) reduce the exposure to tractor overturn hazards in three rural counties through the installation of CROPS on seven tract...