Animal feed

Animal feed

Of or relating to the food products given to farmed animals.

Industry: Agriculture

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feed cost

Agriculture; Animal feed

The production cost of milk is divided in several areas. The one about feeding is called feed cost and is used to calculate the economical interest of a diet.

dry matter percentage

Agriculture; Animal feed

Dry matter is a measurement of mass when completely dried and is expressed in percentage. The dry matter of plant and animal material would be its solids, i.e. all its constituents excluding water.

feed basket

Agriculture; Animal feed

The feed basket gives information on the type of feedstuffs and the proportion in which these are present in a ration.

crop residue

Agriculture; Animal feed

Crop residues are materials left in an agricultural field after the crop has been harvested. These residues include stalks and stubble, leaves, and seed pods. They can be used to feed dairy cows.

Describing the diversity of the farm structures is difficult so it is sometimes useful to simplify the issue. So this indicator gives a general view of the size of a representative farm of a region, ...

forages

Agriculture; Animal feed

Forage is plant material eaten by grazing livestock. The term forage means only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more ...