Pasture

Image: © Andrew Stuart Taken: 9 Jun 2007

Just to the left of the centre of the picture is a ruined cotter's house, unfortunately this was as close as I could get to it. The field itself appears to have been left for silage - Silage (Grass) is grown during the spring / summer to feed to livestock during the winter. The grass is cut before it goes to seed and piled up into huge pits (some silage is now made in wrapped bales) where it is rolled (Compressed) and covered with black polythene which is weighted down (Commonly tyres). The grass is then left to ferment usually the livestock will be fed the silage from about October (Although it depends on how much feeding there is in the grass later in the year).

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