Abstract Wesley Fisher Buchele was born March 18, 1920, in Cedar Vale, Kansas. He received his formal education in agricultural engineering from Kansas State University, the University of Arkansas, and Iowa State University. Buchele was a Professor (1963-1989) of agricultural engineering at Iowa State. Buchele originated several agricultural safety courses, the first of their kind in the country, and is a renowned farm safety expert. He also developed several patents, including one for the large...

Description of Material

This sub-group (1931-1941) consists of yearly reports documenting work conducted under a cooperative agreement by the Agricultural Engineering Section of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The reports contain photographic and written documentation describing the results of experimental farm machinery used for preparing field beds, planting, and harvesting corn and, later, hay.

Scope and Content The collection (1983-2013) includes annual records, the IFSC's newsletter The Council’s Chronicle, a camera ready copy of Iowa Farm Safety in the 20th Century: A History of Contributions by Rural Safety Volunteers, edited by Herb Plambeck (call no. S565 I66 1983), and calendars illustrated with artwork created by Iowa school children participating in the IFSC...