Here's Jenny Rodriguez, UC Ag Health and Safety Center Representative with a hearing protection agricultural health and safety message.
Noise generated by tractors, harvesters, chain saws, and other equipment can cause hearing loss.
Fortunately, hearing protection is readily available, and manufacturers are pursuing ways to make equipment run more quietly. Open tractors, and those with ordinary weather cabs produce sound levels exceeding 90 decibels at the operator's ear. Long exposure to these noise levels will damage hearing. Some new protective cabs cut noise below 85 decibels. The two basic types of hearing protection are the muff and the insert.