A silo full of freshly chopped corn silage is a potential death trap, warns John G. Pollock of the New York Rural Health and Safety Council. Complex chemical reactions involved in the formation of ...

If one month has passed since you filled the silo, initial corn silage fermentation is likely complete. That means it is time to pull a sample and send it off ...

With all the recent rains, frowns are appearing on the faces of many farmers. Harvest time is just around the corner. More specifically, it is time to fill silos. Many have finished, others wait ...

Recently we were driving behind a tractor pulling a chopper wagon full of silage. The wind was blowing loose silage through the air, leaving a trail of it on our windshield and the road. The sweet ...

In this September 1944 scene, Dick Baker and several hands fill a silo at his farm on the McLean-Heyworth Road. Baker reported getting 15 to 18 tons of corn silage per acre. “With 3,000 bales of high ...

Corn silage is a high-yielding, high-energy, low-protein forage commonly used to feed dairy heifers, lactating dairy cows and beef. The fermentation process that is created in silos and bunkers helps ...

When my son was close to being one-year old the materials needed to build a new silo were delivered to the farm by the Unadilla Silo Company. An addition was put on the barn to increase the space we ...

Every silage pile poses potential for serious, even fatal, incidents caused by tractor rollovers, equipment runovers, falls from the silage pile or bunker, crushing and engulfment by collapsing silage ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Soon South Dakota dairy and livestock producers will have data to help them select corn silage hybrids that will yield the nutritional benefits their herds need to produce quality ...