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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]
Silos can be unloaded into rail cars, trucks or conveyors. Tower silos containing silage are usually unloaded from the top of the pile, originally by hand using a silage fork—which has many more tines than the common pitchfork; 12 vs 4—and in modern times using mechanical unloaders.
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]
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. [38]
Hazardous gas concentrations are generally highest within the first 48 hours after silage has been added to the container, but may still be present for roughly four weeks. The hazardous gases produced from fermenting silage (NO 2 and NO 4) are heavier than air and typically can be reduced in silos by means of opening the containers chute doors ...
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 ...
Alfalfa is a perennial forage legume which normally lives four to eight years, but can live more than 20 years, depending on variety and climate. [4] The plant grows to a height of up to 1 metre ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet), and has a deep root system, sometimes growing to a depth of more than 15 m (49 ft) to reach groundwater.
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]