The land will also be used to make hay and silage in the summer.
Some of his animals are now eating what he calls "decidedly second grade silage".
You get them in grass and they go through the silage maker and into cattle feed.
Andrew Ward from Leadenham near Lincoln has sent 55 bales of hay and silage to Bootle to help farmers affected by March's snowstorm.
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.
The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.
Even what the cows eat is well documented, with no silage, ever, a diet consisting primarily of vegetation grown in the same carefully delineated Parmigiano-Reggiano region.
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They have not been able to produce enough high quality silage to feed the animals through the winter, resulting in a big rise in winter-feed costs.
The NFU said contractors providing silage for feed were concerned that because of the recent hike in diesel prices, dairy farmers would have difficulty in meeting their charges.
The biogas will be produced from 41, 000 tonnes of maize, grass silage and food waste from local farms and businesses, including Poundbury-based Dorset Cereals and the House of Dorchester Chocolate Factory.
Rain over the summer has meant a poorer quality of grass silage, and the farm's maize crop is also expected to produce lower yields when it is harvested in the coming weeks.
The Bodorgan Estate is owned by Sir George Meyrick and Lady Jean Taps Gervis Meyrick, the niece of the Duke of Buccleuch and the site is currently used for silage and grazing sheep.
He said a "lucky window" of four days in May when dry weather had allowed him to fill his barn with silage for the winter, whereas his neighbouring farmer had suffered six weeks of "relentless" rain.
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.
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