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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.
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.
Name any two fodder crops?
beverage crops.
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 crops comprise livestock fodder?
Grass, alfalfa, clover, and timothy are all used for livestock fodder.
What are forage crops?
Forage crops are cultivated plants grown to provide food for grazing livestock. These crops are typically rich in nutrients and are used to supplement or replace grazing on natural pastures. Common forage crops include alfalfa, clover, and ryegrass.
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 has the author J A L Dench written?
J. A. L. Dench has written: 'A national beef survey' -- subject(s): Beef cattle, Beef industry, Statistics 'Fodder crops' -- subject(s): Costs, Forage plants, Statistics
What are zayed crops?
In between the rabi and kharif seasons, there is a short season during the summer months known as the Zayed season. Some of the crops produced during Zayed season are : Watermelon, Muskmelon, Cucumber, Vegetables and fodder crops.
What has the author Darrell A Miller written?
Darrell A. Miller has written: 'Forage crops' -- subject(s): Forage plants
What is the difference between field crops and pastures?
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