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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Two University of Nebraska engineering students have been awarded a Lemelson- MIT Student Prize for their invention designed to keep grain farmers safe. Seniors Ben Johnson, an ...

Weevils are grain devouring pests farmers don't want to see in their storage bins.But they may actually welcome a robotic one. "We call this the Grain Weevil because it scurries across the top of the ...

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 ...

Working in a grain bin is one of the most dangerous jobs in one of the most dangerous industries: agriculture. Steve Alexander spoke with the inventors of the Grain Weevil, a robot that eliminates the ...

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 ...

The Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge, now in its eighth year, provides opportunities for Farm Bureau members to showcase business innovations being developed for agriculture. Grain Weevil ...

Grain storage on the farm remains an important but dangerous task. To preserve quality means someone physically has to climb into bins to check, and on family farms teenagers are often tasked with the ...

This week on AgweekTV, cattle producers fight to stay in business while asking Congress to help fix the market. Two Nebraska men are inventing a robot designed to make grain bins safer and more ...

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 ...