SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Grain bins, silos and silage piles can be potentially dangerous areas to work on farms. Farmers can reduce the potential danger by wearing a safety harness and using a ...

Investigators believe a cutting torch ignited dried silage, causing a fire in a silo last week. A Sawyer County Sheriff's Office news release dated Oct. 31 on the fire was issued Wednesday morning. It ...

Forage to be stored in horizontal silos should be near 70% moisture in order to facilitate tight packing and air exclusion. Most upright silos should be filled with 60 to 66% moisture forage to avoid ...

Dear Readers: Here’s a Johnnie that was published originally in September 2014. I hope to have answers to newer questions starting again next week. Good morning, Johnnie: Why have all the silos in the ...

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 ...

With the limited hay crops in some areas this summer, beef producers may want to consider harvesting corn silage to supplement the cow herd this winter. Corn silage can be a very cost effective ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Two people have died. SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO)– Two people have died after falling into a silage silo Saturday morning near Volga. 30 ...

VOLGA, S.D. — Two people were recently killed after being trapped in a farm silo near Volga, adding to a number of grain and forage handling tragedies on farms across the region. According to a ...