Why are grain silos tall instead of wide?
In addition to the point made in the other answers about the use of gravity to dispense the grain from the tall silos… If you had the choice between 2 silos, both would hold the same amount of grain, but one of which would take up a HUGE amount of your land, and the other would take up much less, which would you choose? Especially if you thought that later you might need more than one? If you could build 2 or 3 tall silos on the area of land where you could have built just one very wide silo, wouldn’t it make sense to build the tall ones? With land prices so high in some areas, it makes sense to build the structures which take up less space. That way you can use the extra land for something else.
