[AT] EPA to require farmers be half as dusty

Charlie V 1cdevill at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 09:36:07 PDT 2010


Just thinking out loud. This endless damp weather and harvest delay must be
affecting my mind :-)

This sounds like a condition known as "Water on the brain", Ralph or "Rain
brain drain." (grin)

Charlie V.


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Dust, what is that? You could not make any dust here in the grain fields
> lately .
> Grain elevators have been dust free for years. Dust collectors make the
> modern elevators pretty much dust free in most areas. Even unloading at the
> back of the truck, the dust is sucked down the grate and collected to be
> stored and disposed of later (not sure how that part works).
> How about adding water injection to the back of the combine? A series of
> spray nozzles at the back end of the combine soaking down the area where
> the
> dust comes out. It would take a lot of water, extra weight to haul around
> our already soaked fields. Extra time spent re-filling the water tank. On
> the plus side it would be no problem finding a slough to re-fill the water
> tanks.
> Just thinking out loud. This endless damp weather and harvest delay must be
> affecting my mind :-)
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] EPA to require farmers be half as dusty
>
>
> > This has been in the works for a while. What is interesting to note is
> how
> > clean the new diesels are going to be in about 3-4 years. Deere was
> > running
> > a big add in Successful farming . There was also an article about the
> new,
> > cleaner diesels. Cat says new engines will have (I think) a 12% price
> > increase. Supposedly the new engines will be more fuel efficient as well.
> >
> > The drawback to making  the farmer produce less dust is the mere fact
> that
> > farms probably use more older equipment than any other industry. I can't
> > see
> > retrofitting a bunch of old equipment. Now if the regulation were passed
> > on
> > to new machinery, such as emissions standards with cars, some progress
> > might
> > be made. But how the heck you could even remove 5% of the dust a combine
> > in
> > soybeans makes is beyond me. As for chemical drift, that burden will fall
> > in
> > the lap of the chemical companies. After all, the farmer has to comply
> > with
> > EPA regulations for each pesticide.
> >
> > Maybe once the rules are proposed some wise bean-counter will add up how
> > much food will go up in price and then let the public decide if these
> laws
> > are really needed.
> >
> > John Hall
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rob Wilson" <ro.wilson at att.net>
> > To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:29 PM
> > Subject: [AT] EPA to require farmers be half as dusty
> >
> >
> >> Check this out from the communist administration.
> >>
> >>
> http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100920/NEWS02/309200078/1003/BUSINE
> >> SS/Farmers+fear+dust+rules+won+t+reflect+rural+life
> >>
> >> sample quote
> >>
> >> The EPA's scientific advisers told the agency this summer that the
> agency
> >> could better protect public health by replacing the existing standard of
> >> 150
> >> micrograms of coarse particles per cubic meter with a standard between
> 65
> >> and 85 micrograms per cubic meter.
> >> The agency is expected to release a final document next month spelling
> >> out
> >> its options for revising the standards. The EPA plans to announce any
> >> proposed changes in February, and will likely approve a final updated
> >> rule
> >> by October 2011.
> >>
> >>
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