Tower silos we’re without question the most popular way to store silage here in Ontario. With a tower, or two towers standing beside the barn. During the cold winter, you only had to climb up and fork it out. Gravity would deliver the silage to the feed cart, or feed bunk below. For a bit extra, you could put in a silo unloader, and save some labor. The feed was almost in the barn, with no snow or ice to contend with. Bunker silos required a good loader tractor, which few farms had, even in the 60’s. Large farms that I remember in the 60’s and 70’s with bunkers, would get a old payloader to dig silage out of their pit. By the late 80’s everyone had a decent 4 wheel drive tractor, tower silos we’re getting worn out, and too small, and too costly to replace. So farmers here started using bunkers, and bags. Very few farmers I know still use tower silos, though I do know two near me that put up new silos in the last few years, and one this year even, $150,000. Price tag. Most towers are either standing empty, or have been taken down, in favour of bunkers.
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