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Animal feed
Of or relating to the food products given to farmed animals.
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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.
average farm type size
Agriculture; Animal feed
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 ...
dry animals
Agriculture; Animal feed
Animals that are not producing milk anymore while waiting the next calving.