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Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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cake

Agriculture; Animal feed

Cake is the main source of protein in animal feed. Produced by extracting vegetable oils from various oilseeds: soya, rapeseed, sunflower, copra, sesame, etc. leaving a product, ...

byproduct

Agriculture; Animal feed

Product of considerably less value than the major product. For example, the hide and offal are byproducts, while beef is the major product.

by-pass protein

Agriculture; Animal feed

The portion of intake protein that has a slow rate of degradability in the rumen.

buteric silage

Agriculture; Animal feed

Silage that is too wet and does not ferment properly.

breather

Agriculture; Animal feed

A device which permits air to move in and out of a container or component to maintain atmospheric pressure.

braze

Agriculture; Animal feed

As in welding, a method of adhering or soldering carbide or other hard metal teeth inserts, or joining pieces of metal.

environment

Agriculture; Animal feed

The aggregate of physical, chemical and biological factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.