Visit with me about just making sure that we're always keeping safety top of mind, but especially during that harvest season.

Absolutely.

Number one thing I want to talk about is distracted driving.

Make sure you put that cell phone down, especially when we've got that slow-moving equipment on the road.

Those combines, they can't travel as fast as a car or pickup can, and so it doesn't take many seconds for you to be coming up and unintentionally have a rear-end crash take place.

We've got to be focused.

We've got to be patient.

And I think it's really important to remember that you're not only keeping yourself safe, but your family as well.

How do you see those situations working together?

Yeah, absolutely.

That's a lot to unwrap.

And so I'll do my best to, so if I forego something, please let me know.

So one of the biggest challenges when you talk about raising a family, raising children on the farm, And not everybody's going to like what I'm about to say, but we have to be a parent first, farmer second.

And so oftentimes I'll ask folks in the audience, which hat are you wearing today? Well, what do you mean? Well, are you wearing your parent hat or your farmer hat? Because that makes a really big difference.

If you're asking your kiddo to go hold the gate and watch the gate when you go feed the pen of bulls, you're wearing your farmer hat, not your parent hat.

But what information can you share with families to