silage

Now, the fields are green again, but as Mr Curtis takes me out in his tractor, he has a bale of silage on the front.

With no livestock to feed, the acreage now used to grow silage and hay could be replaced with food crops.

Maintenance of the lion is one of several volunteer taster events at the zoo, which include making silage and helping with maintenance in the elephant enclosure.

One of Jonathan's favourite pastimes on the farm is helping to direct the tractor drivers as they unload silage.

The idea to turn the mixture of cow and chicken faeces, corn silage and other organic waste available at the farm into biogas was born almost a decade ago, farm director Said Karic said.