Plant material eaten by grazing livestock
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.
Grasses.
Grass forages include:
Herbaceous legumes.
Herbaceous legume forages include:
Tree legumes.
Tree legume forages include:
Silage.
Silage may be composed by the following:
Crop residue.
Crop residues used as forage include:
References.
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