Firefighters said the silo was filled halfway with corn when the man went inside. After he became trapped, coworkers placed a ...
On the other hand, overly dry forage is difficult to pack (especially in horizontal silos), resulting in mold and heating. The ideal moisture concentration (65 to 70%) for ensiling corn closely ...
Harvest timing, fertility, and post-harvest strategies impact the moisture of corn, and there are new methods to optimize ...
Read it in full below. On Tuesday afternoon, November 26, Ingredion employees at Cedar Rapids detected an increase in temperature at one of the facility’s corn silos. Safety protocols were ...
Scott Haerr, who harvests 4,000 acres of corn every year (an area nearly five-times the size of New York's Central Park), is one. Inside a massive grain silo on his farm in western Ohio ...
This was one of the recommendations NIOSH officials made after investigating the 2019 death of a Clinton, IA firefighter ...