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Silage gas contains nitric oxide (NO), which will react with oxygen (O 2) in the air to form nitrogen dioxide (NO 2), which is toxic. [16] Lack of oxygen inside the silo can cause asphyxiation. Molds that grow when air reaches cured silage can cause organic dust toxic syndrome. Collapsing silage from large bunker silos has caused deaths. [17]
Forage harvester (Click for video) A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. [1] Silage is grass, corn or hay, which has been chopped into small pieces, and compacted together in a storage silo, silage bunker, or in silage bags. [2]
Short video of the steps involved for filling a farm tower silo. Tower forage filling is typically performed with a silo blower which is a very large fan with paddle-shaped blades. Material is fed into a vibrating hopper and is pushed into the blower using a spinning spiral auger.
Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
Silos is the plural of silo, a farm structure in which fodder or forage is kept. Silos may also refer to: Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain; Silos, Norte de Santander, Colombia; Los Silos, a municipality and town on the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; The Silos, Montana, a census-designated place in the United States; The Silos, an American ...
In 1997, a 14-year-old British student doing a work placement on a farm died after falling into wheat as it was being drained from a silo. U.K. statistics record four cases of grain entrapment among the 336 agricultural deaths it notes between 2005 and 2015; [12] Purdue identifies 16 in that period.
He started work on modernising the farm in the 1880s, [8] and around 1895 built the experimental hydraulic silo building now known as Cragend Silo. The design is believed to have been influenced by a French system that Armstrong studied, and was intended to improve the efficiency of processing cut grass into silage. [1]
Alfalfa is widely grown throughout the world as forage for cattle, and is most often harvested as hay, but can also be made into silage, grazed, or fed as greenchop. [23] Alfalfa usually has the highest feeding value of all common hay crops.