Wrapped Hay

@Soodabeh: The packs were introduced together with the disappearance of the traditional haystacks from the landscape. Since 1980 the farmers go with heavy machines through the haylands, the machines mow, bundle and wrap the hay into these packages which are piled up as cattle feed, before feeding the hay has to "ferment" (I don't know why) and that is best done when isolated from fresh air. The food is given to cows, not to sheep, sheep get natural grass directly from the land where they graze.

@Art Monkey: Thanks Art, I like Cristo, one could call this "Applied Art" because the farmer didn't have art in mind when producing these objects :-).

@Olaide: Thanbks for your explanation, Olaide, later on I remembered that I saw heaps of fermented hay: it also becomes a bit "cookie-like", maybe sugars start to develop that make it more nutritious. Farmers also have to ensure that the temperature within old-fashioned haystacks will not become too high, that's why they prefer the smaller packages as shown in the picture. But is this a farmers' blog or are we exchanging photographs :-)?