Bethel, PA | tillage-director - 6/8/2023 18:38
We fill a 20*70 here. On a normal year it takes around 20 acres to fill it. This is feeding dairy cows and heifers about 140 or so head. The silos here work better than the bags. We also fill 3 9*200 bags that my cousin try’s to feed up during the winter to lessen the mud problem. Put up your silage a little on the dry side 50-55% and you won’t have any problems. You should be able to get around 500 tons. Here a silo lasts about 4 months. Once you get them going, we go up once a week to change doors and that’s about it. The unloaders are both surface drives. The part that does suck is getting them started because you usually have trouble with some slimy rotten on the top but I think that would be aliviated if we were to start feeding them shortly after filling. Usually fill them around the first of October and don’t open the first one up until February-march
I like silos a lot better than bags too. We have way less mold issues with our stave silos and the unloaders are reliable. The reason most people don't like silos is because they don't keep their unloader maintained. If they took care of their skid loader the way they do their unloader. they wouldn't like their trenches either. People would rather spend on a nice skid loader because all the neighbors see it but no one sees if you have a nice unloader. We are tight on land space here and silos take way less land space than bags and trenches. Till you figure in time for shaving the face and pulling back the tires and cover, a trench can't save much time over silos.
Edited by Glendon_B 8/19/2023 12:36
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converting a stave silo to bottom unload
