English countryside with chapel in a field, St Oswald's, in The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire

English countryside with chapel in a field, St Oswald's, in The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire

Traditional hay meadows at the head of the Langdale valley, Lake District, UK, are some of the best wild flower hay meadows left in the country. Since the second world war, Britian has lost over 95% of its traditional hay meadows, as farmers have converted to silage.

Biogas plant with fermenting chambers for methane production from maize silage, Cornau, near Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Herdwick sheep feeding on hay during a cold snap near Tarn Hows in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Herdwick sheep feeding on hay during a cold snap near Tarn Hows in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Herdwick sheep feeding on hay during a cold snap near Tarn Hows in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Close-up of shucked field corn in a corn field in Ridgley, Maryland, USA

Aerial view, ergewa plant, Deuka factory, animal food silo, cooperative, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Biogas plant, biomass power plant, with combined heat and power unit, CHP, and an adjacent silo, maize silage

Grain silos, Neuenstein, Hohenlohe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Farm house in the evening hours, near Palmer, Alaska, USA, PublicGround

Grain storage in Northern California

Livestock - Crossbred beef cattle feed on silage at a beef feedlot on a cold day / Ontario, Canada.