Does anybody still use vertical silo's anymore

[Tony in SD]

I do not know of anyone in my area that uses vertical silos anymore. The last Harvestores in the neighborhood were damage by a fire and tore down. They are back to bunker silos now.

Edit:
When I was about 23 years old, I run into a Harvestore salesman. He asked me when our farm was going to modernize to a new Harvestore silo. I said about 2 years before we go broke. Our local county agent said my comment was correct for our region.

 

[gmccool]

None in our area in SW Iowa being used. A few are still standing but there days are numbered. We had a upright and a pit when I grew up. The silage that came out of the upright was real good quality but you could feed 3-4 pens of cattle out of the pit before the feed wagon got full from the upright. They were slow.

 

[joeysmith]

All pits here

Speed on both ends im sure is a big reason

Most hire customer cutters

 

[Willow Lane]

10th Generation Dairyman on youtube. They built 3 a couple of years ago, i think they are 28 x 132

 

[deere4040]

Would love to use ours again. Needs refurbished. I fed out the last of the haylage couple years after the renter left.

 

[Vito]

10th Generation Dairyman on youtube. They built 3 a couple of years ago, i think they are 28 x 132

He did that so he could install a robotic feeding system. A pretty big investment.

Vito

 

[mdm1]

By our cabin the Mennonites still use them.

 

[Gambles]

There are a couple of large dairies in my county that used to have Harvestores. A few years ago, I was on one of dairies and a crew was tearing them down. I asked the crew where they were being shipped to and they said they were going north, IIRC, Minnesota or Canada.
But the comment about being too slow to fill was correct. You got these corn fields being cut at 15 mph and the Harvestores couldn’t keep up.

 

[Buckhammer]

Would love to use ours again. Needs refurbished. I fed out the last of the haylage couple years after the renter left.

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Does the driveway just take you to the barns or is there a home behind the barns. I could see myself living there.

 

[paul]

A few are used here still. I think concrete is more popular Ryan the harvesters at this point. The big lawsuit on the harvestors took the wind out of them.

But the plastic bags have become very popular.

Bunkers or piles for the huge operations.

Small mid size use remaining uprights and supplement with bags.

No property taxes on the bags. Easy to add more or less capacity.

Paul

 

[NY 986]

The Mennonites here use them extensively.

 

[EFV]

Have a guy one town over that uses a Harvestore as a wet bin for the drying setup.
Fill the silo and then harvest soybeans for three days,refill silo and repeat.

 

[Mark-Mi]

Still use one Harvestore silo, but not for the intended purpose of high moisture feed.
Have a aireation floor in it and store dry corn.

 

[DWF]

I am in NW Wisconsin. A couple of years ago I went by a farm not far from me and they had a tractor hooked up to a blower or whatever they use for filling a silo. The silo was the concrete type and they were filling with corn sillage. Not Mennonites or Amish either.
DWF

 

[rrlund]

The Mennonites around here are still putting up new cement stave silos.

 

[deere4040]

Does the driveway just take you to the barns or is there a home behind the barns. I could see myself living there.

The view you saw was looking south from ground level. Here is looking north.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I do not know of anyone in my area that uses vertical silos anymore. The last Harvestores in the neighborhood were damage by a fire and tore down. They are back to bunker silos now.

Edit:
When I was about 23 years old, I run into a Harvestore salesman. He asked me when our farm was going to modernize to a new Harvestore silo. I said about 2 years before we go broke. Our local county agent said my comment was correct for our region.

They're all fun 'n' games until the bottom unloader heads south.

There's still some in use in my area. A few are for grain storage.

Mike

 

[Texasmark]

I do not know of anyone in my area that uses vertical silos anymore. The last Harvestores in the neighborhood were damage by a fire and tore down. They are back to bunker silos now.

Edit:
When I was about 23 years old, I run into a Harvestore salesman. He asked me when our farm was going to modernize to a new Harvestore silo. I said about 2 years before we go broke. Our local county agent said my comment was correct for our region.

We don't use vertical silos down here, nor steel storage bins for mileage. The BTOs use strips of chopped green corn plant silage covered by white plastic. What I don't know is whether or not they reuse the plastic cover....with my seeing some farms with 300' rows and 10 each, I would surely think they had a way of reusing the cover....surely there is a big expense in that plastic and the machine that works it.

 

[Tony in SD]

We don't use vertical silos down here, nor steel storage bins for mileage. The BTOs use strips of chopped green corn plant silage covered by white plastic. What I don't know is whether or not they reuse the plastic cover....with my seeing some farms with 300' rows and 10 each, I would surely think they had a way of reusing the cover....surely there is a big expense in that plastic and the machine that works it.

Im pretty sure the bags get holes in them during uploading or rodents rendering them usless

 

[flying belgian]

The view you saw was looking south from ground level. Here is looking north.

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Unusual to not have a windbreak around North and West side of yard.