From the depths of a grain bin, a robot is doing the dangerous work once performed by farmers. As it scurries across the grain, the Grain Weevil breaks up hardened surface crust and ridges, leveling ...

Farmers who want to avoid the dangers of stepping in a grain bin can now pre-order the device built to do the work of leveling and breaking up crusts for them. La Vista-based agtech startup Grain ...

While farmers have to perform a number of difficult tasks, tending to the grain stored inside grain bins (aka granaries) is particularly arduous – not to mention dangerous. That's where the Grain ...

Grain Weevil robot takes grain bin safety to new heights The American Farm Bureau Federation has recognized Chad and Ben Johnson of Nebraska for designing a robot called "Grain Weevil" to lower ...

Keeping boots out of bins is the key goal for Grain Weevil inventors Chad and Ben Johnson. The grain bin robot entering the last phase before commercial availability this year started out with a spark ...

Each year, dozens of American farmers are injured or killed after they climb into a grain bin. A father-son duo from Aurora founded their company, Grain Weevil, with one mission: No boots in the grain ...

Farm life holds a unique set of challenges and dangers, one of those inside grain bins. "If the grain starts to spoil, it doesn't flow out of the grain bins the way it's supposed to. So you start to ...

TO AGRICULTURE. NOW, A LOCAL INVENTION IS TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF FARMERS BY DOING THE DIRTY WORK. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S MARY REGLI SHOWS US HOW. FARM LIFE HOLDS A UNIQUE SET OF CHALLENGES AND ...

AURORA, Neb. — Chad and Ben Johnson can envision a day in the not too distant future when a farmer puts a robot into a bin to level the grain inside. As the farmer goes about other business on the ...

Grain such as soybeans, corn, and wheat require storage in giant metal receptacles called grain bins. They, like everything else on a farm, must be maintained to keep the contents fresh and avoid ...

Nebraska-based Grain Weevil designs grain-bin robots that improve farm safety, supported by NBDC, SBIR funding and a strong ...

It can take only a matter of seconds to become buried or entangled in a grain bin. Yet despite the risk of serious injury and even death, grain farmers for years have had no better way to maintain ...