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Forage

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Sorghum grown as forage crop.

Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.

While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage crop is used to define crops, annual or biennial, which are grown to be utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.

Common forages

Bull feeding on grass
Horse-drawn transport of fodder in Romania
Meadow of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)

Grasses

Grass forages include:

Herbaceous legumes

Herbaceous legume forages include:

White clover (Trifolium repens)

Tree legumes

Tree legume forages include:

Sheep with silage

Silage

Silage may be composed by the following:

Aquatic feeds

Crop residue

Crop residues used as forage include:

  • Sorghum
  • Sweet potato vines
  • Corn or soybean
  • Fruit tree by-products stover

Less common

  • Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatusDaikon radish/"forage radish"

See also

External links

  • Media related to Forages at Wikimedia Commons

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