It really is this empty here. It’s a boater’s lake though, and it gets really busy on the weekends.
Barn silos. Apparently silos are never for storing stuff the farmer/rancher produced and is going to sell. It’s always for storing stuff the farmer/rancher is going to use. The stuff in it is called silege (makes sense). I’m familiar with ensilage. We’ve seen and smelled plenty of that at Bill and Marge’s farm. It’s corn or maize shredded into bits, piled in a trench covered with plastic with old tires on top to weight it down, and allowed to ferment. It makes a cattle feed for the winter. We didn’t put the two together. Sileage (ensileage) from silos. A different way of doing the same thing. An anaerobic decomposition of chopped up crops so it ferments and preserves (and is easier for the livestock to digest).
Part of the mystery for us is that all over the upper Midwest we saw these silos, but we rarely saw enough stock to make us think that these properties needed a source of stock feed.
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