Making silos smarter with technology | Farmer’s Journal
Below is an extract from a recent publication in the Farmer’s Journal. To read the full article please click on the link below.
Monitoring the levels of feed in silos on Irish farms is generally done by
visual inspection or by estimation.
As a result, data shows that the average dairy farm runs out of feed three
times a year.
This isn’t unique to Ireland. There are some 7.5m silos around the world
used for a variety of purposes such as feed, biomass and aggregate storage.
