Discussions of safety around bunker silos and silage piles have typically included warnings about overturning tractors, running over bystanders, getting crushed by a loader bucket and other hazards.

When accessing silos, be aware of toxic gases that are produced during the fermentation process. These gases include nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4). These ...

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 ...

The dog days of August are here, and that means silage chopping season is rapidly approaching. How silage is cut and stored depends somewhat on the growing season, says Aaron Saeugling, Iowa State ...

Air is the primary factor that can destroy silage. A poor seal of a bag, bunker or pile lets yeast, mold and aerobic bacteria grow during storage. Mold indicates deterioration, dry matter loss, less ...

In this month’s article, I want to share a question I recently received from a Tennessee cattle producer. He had a bunker of ...

A lot of time and energy is spent harvesting quality hay and silage. All of that can be wasted without proper storage. For hay and silage, up to 50% losses in dry matter can occur in some instances, ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The director of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center was in Rochester recently to give updates about its research projects. Neal Martin was a keynote speaker at a meeting put on by ...