Farmers are working hard to get the new crop in the ground, but it's important to do so safely.

Glen Blahey of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association reminds producers it's important to be maintaining more than just equipment — operators need to be looked after, too. Blahey says it's critical to drink plenty of water and take proper meal breaks when working in the field, but it's also important to rest.

"If you are awake for 18 hours, you do experience a level of impairment in terms of your decision-making abilities," he says. "To give it a comparison, after being awake for 18 hours, your level of intellectual impairment is about equivalent of having a .05 blood alcohol content."

He also says before farmers and workers head out to the field, it's important to understand where everyone will be located. He says it's also important to have scheduled check-ins, particularly when equipment operators are working alone.

"It doesn't matter if it's an employer/employee relationship or if it's just family members, you want to make sure there's a process for checking in on those individuals," Blahey says. "In the event that there is an emergency and something happens, you want to make sure that you're not waiting until the sun goes down and someone says, 'My goodness, it's five hours after when they should have been home, maybe I should go look for them.'"

To go with that, Blahey says it's important to know specific geographic areas in case emergency responders need to be called.