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Central MN | 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 crap 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 | |
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converting a stave silo to bottom unload
