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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This photo was taken by the staff of the Southern Indiana Purdue Ag Center showing nitrogen tetraoxide, a reddish brown gas, spreading across the ground after a bag of silage was opened. The gas is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DUNKERTON - Silage choppers began churning through Northeast Iowa corn fields last week, and farmers are optimistic about a slow, yet quality harvest. While some farmers are already filling silos, ...

FARGO - Corn harvested at high moisture levels needs special care when it's stored. For example, corn at moisture contents exceeding about 23 percent should not be stored in a grain bin because the ...

FARGO - The time to make corn silage is approaching quickly. Late-season crops remain ahead of or near the average for maturity, with some corn chopping already under way, according to the North ...