Pit silos really came into their own with the large dairies. A wall on each side- doesn't cost that much more to make them 100 feet apart rather than 50, but it doubles the capacity. You need to take at least 6', preferably a foot, off the face each day to avoid spoilage. So the larger the number of cattle, the wider you could make it. A large dairy that PCA financed had it all figured out- one huge pit for corn, because it had to last all year. Two smaller ones for grass- Use one all winter, then refill it in the spring while you're using out of the other one over summer. When you get the one filled, start filling the other and using out of the other end for the rest of the summer. High quality TMR feed, good cows, even better manager, he couldn't have printed as much money as he made on that place. And this after his ne'er do well dad almost lost the place.
He had a couple of very attractive daughters- they worked right along with everyone else. Remember watching one use a huge Case loader to load out manure- no wasted motion, never looked behind her, knew where everything was, leaned back in that seat like it was an armchair. I was almost tempted to watch the loading operation rather than the girl. Almost.
But as luck would have it, he wasn't far from Tacoma- and suburbia caught up with him. So he sold his 1,000 acres for many millions, used a few of the millions to recreate the dairy in eastern Washington farm country, and put the rest in his pocket. Life is not always hard.
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