Explore: Silage Handling

Silage is fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation to the point of souring. It is fed to cattle, sheep and other

(such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured

attachments such as hydraulic grabs and spikes to assist with bale and silage handling, forks for pallet work, and buckets for more general farm activities

conveyors. Tower silos containing silage are usually unloaded from the top of the pile, originally by hand using a silage fork—which has many more tines

tool used for moving (or throwing) loose materials such as hay, straw, silage, and manure. A garden fork is used similarly to a spade in loosening and

of grain-handling worker fatalities. Falls from machinery and structures were the second largest single cause of grain- and silage-handling fatalities

square large bales. Bale squeezes are used with bales that are wrapped for silage, large piles of large and small square bales, as well as a special squeeze

Crimped grain is stored in storage silos as a silage. Crimped grain is dustless, thus convenient to handle, does not require further processing, and is

nutrient runoff and pesticides. Point source pollution includes animal wastes, silage liquor, milking parlour (dairy farming) wastes, slaughtering waste, vegetable

artichoke tubers can be fed to many animals, and silage produced from the harvested stalks and leaves. The silage has high nutrient values and satisfactory digestion