Last year there was 3 adjusters working in the area. One guy was very very anal about everything, things being clean, counting heads, plants, measuring and kernels counts, to the point of being excessively slow. I think he actually quit, couldn't handle the stress and pressure that was put on him to perform. The second guy, he'd clean things at the start of the day, and let it ride until the end of the day and wash things up for the next day. He did a good job and understood the implications of Clubroot and other soil born contamination. And the third guy, well he had crap hanging all over his quad and truck. He only drove in the yard to see the second adjuster, and he was warned if he was going to be on our land he was going to be cleaning his quad and truck before he did any work.
So it would appear that AFSC doesn't have any real standards for equipment cleaning. If they do, some of there operators aren't following the rules. There really should be set in stone standards as to how things are cleaned, especially now that we have to worry about clubroot.
However, all there operators have to take a quad operators course, so at least they are safe while potentially spreading, crop diseases and weeds all over the country.
So it would appear that AFSC doesn't have any real standards for equipment cleaning. If they do, some of there operators aren't following the rules. There really should be set in stone standards as to how things are cleaned, especially now that we have to worry about clubroot.
However, all there operators have to take a quad operators course, so at least they are safe while potentially spreading, crop diseases and weeds all over the country.
