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Forage meaning
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. | An act or instance of foraging. | The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
Example sentences (20)
I tried to compare forage test results of the most common perennial forages in our region, namely grass haylage and mixed mostly grass (MMG) haylage, using very recent data from the Dairy One Forage Lab in Ithaca, NY.
He then earned a master’s in forage utilization and management from the University of Kentucky before enrolling at MSU, where he received his doctorate studying forage genetics and production.
Many livestock producers in the region are short on forage due to challenging harvest conditions last fall and drought during key times for forage production.
Now he is the Executive Chef of Forage, Timber, and Forage Catering.
Compared to forage sorghum, which is grown as an alternative grazing forage, animals gain weight faster on millet and it has better hay or silage potential, although it produces less dry matter.
Although NSOs evolved with forest fires, and happily forage in burned sites, salvage logging removes that possibility.
And then, of course, there are the totally invisible factors that come into play when it comes to determining conserved forage quality – the threat of mycotoxins being a case in point.
British troops, who remained in Charles Town until December 1782, 14 months after Yorktown, were sent to forage for fresh meat for the British hospital in the still-captured city.
Bumble bees forage over larger distances from 100’s to maybe a couple kilometres.
Corn usually responds favorably to healthier soil structure, porosity and moisture management provided by winter forage.
Eventually, you're going to need to upgrade your tools to be able to forage better resources.
Exactly when and where elephant seals sleep in the open ocean has been a mystery; the animals will forage at sea for months at a time, sohas to occur at some point.
For dairy herds, only grazing half the height of the forage is recommended.
For producers who must feed low-quality forage, Ribeiro has some tips to improve digestion.
Fresh water supplies were inconsistent, Chafa recalls, leading multitudes of desperate citizens, mainly women and children, to forage unsafe water from shallow wells, some contaminated by unattended raw sewage.
If a cow can’t intake enough forage, either production will be sacrificed or a feed supplement will be needed.
In a statement to CBC News, DFO says that without a healthy forage fish stock like mackerel, the entire ocean ecosystem would be at risk of collapsing, thereby putting other fisheries at risk.
Increasing forage intakes is an option if cows will eat more.
It’s an approach that stretches back to her childhood, when she would forage for wild blackberries and huckleberries and use them to make pies with her mother.
More and more producers have made crabgrass their forage of choice.