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Grass, alfalfa, clover, and timothy are all used for livestock fodder.

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What is the difference between food crops and fodder crops?

Food crops are crops grown for human consumption such as vegetables and fruit. Fodder crops such as hay, corn, and sorghum are grown for livestock to eat.


What is the importance of fodder crops to livestock?

Fodder crops are incredibly important to livestock, especially cattle. Feeding cattle and grazing them ultimately depends on the production of forage crops because these animals will not nor can not eat anything else. Cattle are herbivores and designed to eat plants that are impossible for us humans to eat, so in order for us to get beef and milk from these animals, we had--and have--to feed them according to what they can, will, and need to eat. Thus, no matter how or what cattle are fed, they all source from fodder crops.


What are leguminous and non-leguminous fodder crops?

Leguminous fodder crops are plants that belong to the legume family, such as alfalfa, clover, and soybeans, that have the ability to fix nitrogen in the soil through a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Non-leguminous fodder crops, on the other hand, do not have this ability and include grasses like ryegrass, fescue, and oat. Both types of crops can be important sources of nutrients for livestock.


What is a fodder industry called?

Fodder industry, one that grows, makes and sells hay and silage for livestock.


Name any two fodder crops?

beverage crops.


Does corncob digest?

Yes. It is commonly used in fodder for livestock.


What are fodder crops?

Fodder crops are crops grown for the purpose of being produced as animal feed. Fodder is also known as forage and is fed to animals in the form of straw, hay, silage, grain, greenfeed, baleage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, legumes, sprouted grains, grain by-product, animal by-product (especially with feeding hogs and poultry), cull vegetables and starches, etc. Certain crops like berseem, corn, sorghum, milo, wheat, oats, sudan grass, alfalfa, timothy, and grass-legume hay mixes are such used as a means to create fodder or animal feed for livestock.


What is the definition of fodder?

Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay


How can you put the word fodder in a sentence?

Fodder as a noun for a coarse food for livestock; the raw material for something; or people who have no value and are expendable.Fodder as a verb is the act of feeding fodder to livestock.Example sentence:The slightest mishap by a celebrity is always fodder for the paparazzi.


What part of crop is used as cattle fodder?

What sort of crop are you referring to? With most crops, like barley or corn, all of it (except the roots) are used as livestock feed, because they can be cut up for silage or harvested for grain.


Why are tallness and profuse branching desirable traits for fodder crops?

Tallness in fodder crops allows for more biomass production, providing more feed for livestock. Profuse branching increases the number of leaves and stems available for grazing. Both traits contribute to higher yield and better utilization of resources.


What is it mean not fertile enough to grow crops?

It means the soil doesn't have the nutrients or quality suitable to grow crops in. It can be too sandy or too rocky or too clayey. But, just because a soil is not fertile enough to grow crops with doesn't mean it's not good enough to be used to grow fodder, range or pasture for livestock to graze.