In a 12-foot-high by 80-foot-wide by 140-foot-long bunker, the top 3 feet of silage contains approximately 672 tons (as fed) of silage at a density of 40 pounds per cubic feet.

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 ...

For bunker silos, pack silage as tightly as possible in progressive wedges in depths of 6 inches or less, allowing about five minutes of packing time per ton of silage.

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.

The Uttarakhand Cooperative Dairy Federation (UCDF) introduces a project to construct underground silage bunkers, ensuring fodder security for cattle farmers by improving nutritional value and ...

A provincial agriculture official says it could cost $15,000 to quench the stench of a silage bunker that has prompted many complaints in a community in western Prince Edward Island.

Known as the farm bagger, which is developed by Germany-based agricultural company Budissa Bag Agroservices, this new system is more cost effective than the traditional bunker method of storing ...