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.

Dozens crowd around the feeder as the silage tumbles from the forks, jostling to get at it.

Mr Curtis said he should be saving this silage for the winter, but he has no choice.

And worse still, the farm is not producing any new grass to make silage to replace it.

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