forage

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(fôr'ĭj, fŏr'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. Food for domestic animals; fodder.
  2. The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.

v., -aged, -ag·ing, -ag·es.

v.intr.
  1. To wander in search of food or provisions.
  2. To make a raid, as for food: soldiers foraging near an abandoned farm.
  3. To conduct a search; rummage.
v.tr.
  1. To collect forage from; strip of food or supplies: troops who were foraging the countryside.
  2. Informal. To obtain by foraging: foraged a snack from the refrigerator.

[Middle English, from Old French fourrage, from forrer, to forage, from feurre, fodder, of Germanic origin.]

forager for'ag·er n.


Vegetable food, including corn and hay, of wild or domestic animals. Harvested, processed, and stored forage is called silage. Forage should be harvested in early maturity to avoid a decrease in protein and fibre content as crops mature.

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verb

    To make a thorough search of: comb, ransack, rummage, scour2. Slang shake down. Idioms: beat the bushes, leave no stone unturned, looksearchhigh and low, looksearchup and down, turn inside out, turn upside down. See investigate.

v. obtain food or provisions from (a place).

forager n.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

Plant matter, fresh or preserved, gathered and fed to animals.

Strictly speaking, dried winter feed, usually hay. Used also to include ensilage and even pasture so that the term becomes synonymous with roughage. See also bunk forage.

  • f. mites — see trombicula.
  • f. poisoning — the forage contains a toxic agent. See food poisoning.
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  See crossword solutions for the clue Forage.
Bull feeding on grass

Forage is plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.[1] Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.[2]

While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage crop is used to define crops, annual or biennal, which are grown to be utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.[3]

Contents

Common forages

Grasses

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Herbaceous Legumes

[6]

Tree Legumes

Silage

Silage may be composed by one of the following[7]

Crop residue

  • Sorghum
  • Corn (maize) stover
  • Soybean stover

See also

References

  1. ^ Fageria, N.K. (1997). Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops. NY,NY: Marcel Dekker. pp. 595. 
  2. ^ Fageria, N.K. (1997). Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops. NY,NY: Marcel Dekker. pp. 583. 
  3. ^ Givens, D. Ian (2000). Forage evaluation in ruminant nutrition. CABI. pp. 1. ISBN 978-0-85199-344-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=78WIrCCJW-MC&pg=PA1&dq=forage+definition#v=onepage&q=forage%20definition&f=false. 
  4. ^ Murphy, Bill (1998). Greener Pastures On Your Side of the Fence. Colchester, Vermont: Arriba Publishing. pp. 19–20. 
  5. ^ Wikisource-logo.svg "Pasture". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 
  6. ^ Murphy, Bill (1998). Greener Pastures On Your Side of the Fence. Colchester, Vermont: Arriba Publishing. pp. 20. 
  7. ^ George, J. Ronald (1994). Extension Publications: Forage and Grain Crops. Dubuque,Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. pp. 152. 



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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - fouragere, samle føde, rage, plyndre
v. tr. - skaffe føde til, fodre
n. - fourage, foder, fouragering

Nederlands (Dutch)
plundertocht, voeder, doorzoeken, afstropen/ plunderen, bemachtigen, voedsel zoeken, van voer voorzien

Français (French)
v. intr. - (fig) fouiller pour trouver qch
v. tr. - affourager (des animaux)
n. - fourrage, pillage, (faire) provision de

Deutsch (German)
n. - Futter, Nahrungssuche, Beutezug
v. - ausplündern, durchstöbern

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χορτονομή, ζωοτροφές, βοσκή, βόσκηση, χόρτο, (μτφ.) επιδρομή για τρόφιμα ή εφόδια
v. - συλλέγω, δίνω χορτονομή, (μτφ.) αναζητώ, ψάχνω, ψάχνω για τροφή, κάνω επιδρομή για τρόφιμα ή εφόδια

Italiano (Italian)
foraggio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - forragem (f) (tipo de ração), procura (f) (de alimento)
v. - forragear

Русский (Russian)
фуражировать, разыскивать

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - forrajearse, ir en busca de provisiones
v. tr. - forrajear, dar forraje a
n. - pillaje, correría, forraje

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - foder åt hästar o boskap, furagering
v. - furagera, leta

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
搜寻粮草, 掠夺, 喂, 搜寻, 粮草, 饲料

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 搜尋糧草, 掠奪
v. tr. - 餵, 搜尋, 掠奪
n. - 糧草, 搜尋糧草, 飼料

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 식량을 구하다, 침략하다, 뒤지다
v. tr. - 징발하다, 약탈하다
n. - 사료, 먹이 찾기, 습격

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 飼料, あさること, まぐさ
v. - 食糧をあさる, 捜す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) علف للماشيه (فعل) يجمع العلف , ينهب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮חיפש מזון‬
v. tr. - ‮חיפש, סיפק מזון‬
n. - ‮מזון לסוסים ולבקר, מספוא, חציר, חיפוש מזון‬


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