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Ed Brokish

Ed Brokish

Associate Professor and ATM Program Coordinator in the Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University; licensed professional engineer focused on agricultural machinery and roadway safety.

Oct 16, 2025

14:48
Make sure they're clean, whether that's taking your hand and dusting it off before you leave your house, the field, whether you're moving from field to field or leaving the house to go to the field and then coming home from the field, make sure that those are clean or even a baby wipe, keeping it in your cab and make sure you're wiping it off would be beneficial.
15:05
SMVs have been around for a long time and farm equipment as a whole is pretty durable and stays around for a long time.
15:13
But the SMV will fade over time.
15:17
And as a farmer, just as you would repair a disc that you broke a disc blade or lost a shovel on a field cultivator, you need to repair your SMVs or any other of the lighting and marking on your ag equipment.
15:31
And so if you've got an old SMV that's broken, faded out, spend the few bucks at the local farm supply and buy a new one and stick it on there, it'll save you, may save your life, may save somebody else's life.
15:48
But keep those things repaired as well.
20:30
Ed, do you have any other reminders?
20:33
The main thing is to understand that if you are in a passenger vehicle, small pickup, and you have a collision with a piece of agri-equipment, you are going to take the worst of it.

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