The earlier you can detect a fire, the easier it becomes to control so it is important to regularly monitor your silos for a good three weeks post harvest. This is not an easy task but not an impossible one either. Better to lose a few tons than a few hundred tons. The goal to managing a fire inside this silo has to be in locating the fire area and controlling that area without affecting the rest of the material. Good hay crop silage would be considerably more. If you had to purchase that 400 tons of feed, it would cost you nearly $20,000 ($50 per ton). Let's say you have 20' x 60' silo that has 400 tons of corn silage in it. When a silo catches on fire, a farm operator can lose a tremendous investment and be faced with an unmanageable cost to replace ruined feed. When this happens, excessive heating can occur which could lead to a spontaneous combustion fire. Sometimes however, harvest conditions are less than ideal, and material is put into the silo drier than it should. If all is well with your silage production and storage, your bottom line will be better off than if you have to purchase feed from an outside source. This investment is going to enable you to feed your livestock economically into the next year. If all is right, the investment you make in putting the crop in the silo is less than what you would spend if purchasing the crop from someone else. Overall, it is a tremendous investment in time and materials goes into your cropping program. You prepare the land purchase the seed and fertilizer plant the crop manage the pests nurture that crop throughout the season harvest when the crop matures and/or when the weather allows.
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