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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.
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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.
Name any two fodder crops?
beverage crops.
What are leguminous and non-leguminous fodder crops?
Leguminous fodder crops include:CloverAlfalfaSanfoinBird's Foot TrefoilLaspadenzaCicer MilkvetchField PeasNon-Leguminous fodder crops include:TimothyOrchard grassCornBarleyTriticaleSmooth Brome GrassMeadow Brome GrassKentucky Blue GrassBlue Gamma GrassBermuda GrassBuffalo GrassRed Canary GrassJohnson GrassIt should be noted that all grasses even those not listed here are non-leguminous fodder crops.
What crops comprise livestock fodder?
Grass, alfalfa, clover, and timothy are all used for livestock fodder.
Define zayed crops with one example?
Zayed crops are crops which are grown between the Kharif and Rabi seasons. Examples: Watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops.
Difference between fodder and forage crops?
fodder is the food for cattle and forage crop is food for animals & horses.
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.
Which Indian states are fodder crops found in?
Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, UP, MP, MH
What crops does Belgium have?
main crops: corn, mais, potatoes also: sugar beets, fodder beets, tobacco, hop, chicory, flax, beans
Why are tallness and profuse branching desirable traits for fodder crops?
Because the tallness enables the fodder crops to be easy to cut for hay or silage, and the profuse branching, especially with alfalfa, makes it easy for machines like the baler to pick up the swath without much waste. In some fodder crops, like in grass, profuse branching happens on a more microscopic level at ground level, making these grasses, called bunch grasses, desirable for grazing instead of for hay.
What is re-cultivation of crops?
Ratooning of sugar cane is re-cultivation. Likewise other fodder crops such as Berseem, oat etc are re-cultivated after each cutting.
What are millets?
Millets are variable small seeded grasses. These are used to grow cereal crops and grains for fodder and human food.
