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After a three-hour hearing Monday at city hall, the Building Review Board, or BRB, decided a pair of 100-year-old silage silos that stand next to the Coy-Hoffman barn on Woodward’s property are ...
Still, the use startles me. For me, a silo will always be a tall, round building used to store chopped cornstalks called silage that is fed to animals. How did this change come about?
Bunker silos are handy for bulk production: If you want to produce a lot of silage at once, use a bunker silo. That said, you will require a forage harvester and a good tractor to handle it.
Other signs may be blackened or glowing red silage, or smoke pouring out of the silo, according to the Cornell University. After calling the fire department, farm owners should move animals and ...
The top of the silage should come no higher than 50cm below the top of the pit walls. “The rule of thumb is that 1m [depth] of beet releases 1m of effluent into the silage,” he says.
It is recommended that when a silo is opened for the first time after being filled, to run the silage blower for 20-30 minutes and wear a dust mask or respirator before entering the confined space.
Investigators learned the two workers were repairing a damaged roof on top of an 80-foot silage silo when they became trapped inside for unknown reasons. The two workers are then believed to have ...
BROOKINGS COUNTY, S.D. (Dakota News Now /Gray News) - Two workers were killed Saturday after they became trapped in a silo near Volga, South Dakota. According to the Brookings County Sheriff’s ...
BROOKINGS COUNTY, S.D. (Dakota News Now /Gray News) - Two workers were killed Saturday after they became trapped in a silo near Volga, South Dakota. According to the Brookings County Sheriff’s Office, ...