Tailgate Sample Topics
Last updated:
05/29/2009
The list below are sample topics that appropriate for AGET 150.
Typical topics are brief (3-5 minutes) and focused on a single issue.
Tailgate talks should
address the safety problem and provide some background (why we should care),
provide some talking points, and list some questions. Topics will be 1-2 pages
in length and students are expected to handout to the rest of the students in
the lab.
- ATV Safety (on Farm)
- Caught In and Between
- Chemical Applications
- Chock and Block
- Combine Safety
- Cotton Pickers
- Diesel Exhaust
- Fail Mowers
- Forage Harvester
- Fork Lifts
- Hand Signals
- Hands and Fingers
- Hay Harvest-Round Bales
- Hay Harvest-Square Bales
- Hydraulics
- Injury & Illness Prevention Programs
- Intro to Ag Safety
- Landscape Equipment (overview)
- Loader Safety
- Machine Hazards
- Mowers
- Noise
- Nut Harvesting (pick a machine)
- Planting Operations
- Power Take Off
- Riders
- Roll Over Protective Structures
- Rotary Mowers
- Skid Steer Loaders
- SMV Emblems and Highway Safety
- Swather (Windrower)
- Tillage and Cultivation Operations
- Track and Large Tractors
- Tractor, road operations
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