The Guthrie County Farm Bureau has been awarded two grain bin rescue tubes. One will be placed in Guthrie Center and one in Panora. Andrew Knaack with the Iowa Farm Bureau says the new safety equipment is the result of a grant. “The grain rescue tube systems came through an Iowa Farm Bureau grant, that Guthrie County Farm Bureau applied for and received cost share money. Then, we applied that to buy the grain tubes, drills and augers.”

Knaack says the tubes will be presented next Tuesday night at the Guthrie Center Fire Station and a demonstration will take place as well. “They’re going to go ahead and bring the fire departments in and have some formal training done on how to use the grain tube rescue systems and we’ll go ahead, as the Farm Bureau, and interact with the firefighters and see that equipment used in real time by those guys and gals.”

He’ll tell us more about it today on Let’s Talk Guthrie County. It airs during the 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m. hours on K107.9 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com