Fodder

In agriculture, fodder or animal feed is any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed livestock, such as cattle, sheep, chickens and pigs.

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Most animal feed is from plants but some fodder is of animal origin. Although most animal foodstuffs are considered safe, mad cow disease spreads due to prion contamination of meat and bone meal, a common feed ingredient.

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• grass (as grazing pasture and for cropping and storage as hay and silage)
• ryegrass
• bermuda grass
• timothy-grass
• danthonia
• wheat
• millet
• soybean
• oats
• alfalfa (lucerne)
• sorghum
• clover
• red clover
• white clover
• subterranium clover
• maize
• brassicas
• chau moellier
• kale
• rapeseed (Canola)
• rutabaga (swede)
• turnip
• birdsfoot trefoil

Agriculture: Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). The practice of agriculture is also known as farming, while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming met...

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Livestock: Livestock are domesticated animals in an agricultural setting....