A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 2000
JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Farming Staff
MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin
Co.) Farmers, Extension
agents, and industry profession
als met in Middletown on
Thursday to discuss “Profitable
Storage For Your Farm.” The
Crop Storage Institute spon
sored the meeting and provided
lunch for all attendees.
The featured speaker was
Tobina Schmidt, a graduate stu
Speakers at Thursday’s Profitable Feed Storage For
Your Farm meeting included (from left) Jason Van Gilder, a
Somerset Co. dairy farmer; Drew Freeman, from the Crop
Storage Institute; and Tobina Schmidt, graduate student
from Kansas State University.
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Schmidt discussed “the good,
bad, and the ugly” about the
various silage storage systems.
For upright silos, Tobina
highlighted the good aspects,
which included less than eight
percent spoilage and low land
requirement. The bad aspects in
cluded slow filling time, high in
itial costs, and slow unloading
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The good aspects of silage
bags included low cost, tempo
rary nature, variable site stor
age, and less than 15 percent
spoilage in good situations.
Annual costs, plastic tears, plas
tic disposal, and contractor de
pendability were listed as the
bad aspects of the bags. Poor
packing density, mold, air infil
tration, and spoilage as high as
50 percent were listed as the
“ugly.”
Good aspects of horizontal
silos, such as trenches and bunk
ers, were low initial costs, high
volume, and fast unloading
time. The bad aspects of hori
zontal silos included silo con
tamination, side spoilage,
effluent run-off, large exposed
surface, and crucial packing
density. The ugly aspect is that
it must be covered.
Schmidt also reviewed a study
comparing animals fed normal
silage and animals fed a mixture
of normal silage and spoiled
silage. The Kansas State study
showed that dry matter intake
significantly decreases with
greater percentages of spoiled
silage in the ration.
“We recommend that people
put top spoilage in a pile and do
not feed it,” said Schmidt.
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Schmidt said, while many
farmers think the only part of
silage that is spoiled is the visible
layer of spoilage, there is an ad
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turned acidic.
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Schmidt encouraged farmers
to log on to Kansas State’s new
web site, www.oznet.ksu.edu/si
lage. The web site is filled with
information and research re
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Schmidt also highlighted
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about their silage harvesting and
storage methods through the list
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Jason Van Gilder, who farms
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his new 132 feet by 30 feet con
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