The land will also be used to make hay and silage in the summer.

BBC: Belted Galloway

Andrew Ward from Leadenham near Lincoln has sent 55 bales of hay and silage to Bootle to help farmers affected by March's snowstorm.

BBC: Sheep in the snow

Hundreds of tonnes of household and business waste has been disguised as plastic-wrapped hay, straw or silage bales and dumped on farmland in Essex.

BBC: Bales of household waste

The donkey, overdramatising as usual, lets out a strangled, desperate bray before I scatter the hay for him and the two jostling bullocks, then wheel in several barrows of silage for Perk Farm's eight cows in their stalls and give the chickens their grain.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia