A cylindrical farm storage structure used to hold bulk grain or fermented feed, or silage, protecting the stored crop from weather and spoilage between harvest and use or sale. Its sealed, upright form lets a farm manage a harvest efficiently across an entire season rather than needing to move or sell it immediately. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Introduced Year1873 is the first modern upright wooden farm silo (Fred Hatch, Spring Grove, Illinois); ancient storage-pit silos date many millennia earlier and are not the date stored here. OriginThe earliest known silo pits date to the fifth millennium BC at Tel Tsaf in the Levant, and Ancient Greece used silo pits extensively by the late eighth century BC. The first modern upright farm silo, a wooden structure, was built in 1873 at Spring Grove, Illinois, by the farmer Fred Hatch. 1 Connections
Associated With
grain is dried before it goes into a silo for storage; the two are sequential steps in the same handling chain
grain elevators and silos are paired grain-storage and handling structures, the elevator moving grain into and out of silo storage
Sources
1. Silo (Wikipedia)
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Silos are commonly used for bulk storage of grain, coal, cement, carbon black, woodchips, food products, and sawdust.
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