Farmers recall emergency details, and lessons learned

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Clean-up from a silo collapse, and a barn fire, was more challenging than expected.YOU KNOW IT'S going to be a bad day, when your first job in the morning is to call the vet and ask how long your livestock can go without being fed.That's the call that Phil Van Raay made after the silo serving the finishing pig barn at Van Raay Farms Ltd., near Dashwood, collapsed. It was 5:30 am, on November 1, 2016. His brother, Dean had been keeping vigil all night, as the high moisture silo hadstarted to lean the day before. In the timeit took for Dean to make his morning coffee run, it finally fell and exploded 1500 tonnes of high moisture corn.