Wisconsin
lawmakers are considering 250-thousand dollars in annual support to add
roll-over protection structures to older farm tractors.
Melissa Ploeckelman with the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin says older tractors by John Deere and Kubota are relatively inexpensive to retrofit, but Case and International tractors cost more. “A Case tractor, to put a ROPS on those can cost like anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 dollars, so any farmer who has an International tractor, they never follow through with the program because we can only pay up to $865 dollars, and then it would still cost them (about) $2,000 more dollars.”
The current program is limited to paying 70% up to 865-dollars.
