Posted by coshoo on November 13, 2020 at 10:07:44 from (174.21.178.216):
In Reply to: Tall silos posted by Charlie M on November 13, 2020 at 05:23:02:
Lots of small dairies around here (western Washington) in the 50's (mostly guys coming back from WWII), and we had a pretty good silo salesman in the area. He ended up building a concrete stave silo on many farms. He emphasized the quality of feed, and sort of glossed over the power and machinery requirements and the labor of putting it up pitching it out. I remember Dad helping a neighbor replace one PTO shaft after another on an Oliver Super 55- it was just too small for silage harvesting and blowing. Silage was also too much work for most dairy operators, who were usually working alone (kids from WWII vets were too young to be of any help yet). As a result, most abandoned silage a couple years after starting it. Then many quit dairying in about 1960, and those that stayed in converted their silage land to pasture and bought more cows, with purchased Alfalfa hay for winter feed. It was about the only way an owner/operator could keep up with the labor. After they got out of dairy, most just raised some beef on the land and got a job in town. Don't know of a single one who ever put up silage again.
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