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In agriculture, fodder or animal feed is any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed domesticated livestock such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from plants but some is of animal origin. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (see forage). It includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, and also sprouted grains and legumes.
The worldwide animal feed industry consumed 635 million tons of feed (compound feed equivalent) in 2006, with an annual growth rate of about 2%. The use of agricultural land to grow feed rather than human food can be controversial; some types of feed, such as corn (maize), can also serve as human food, while others such as grass cannot. Some agricultural by-products which are fed to animals may be considered unsavory by human consumers.
Common plants specifically grown for fodder
* Alfalfa (lucerne)
* Barley
* Birdsfoot trefoil
* Brassicas
** Chau moellier
** Kale
** Rapeseed (Canola)
** Rutabaga (swede)
** Turnip
* Clover
** Alsike clover
** Red clover
** Subterranean clover
** White clover
* Grass
** False oat grass
** Fescue
** Bermuda grass
** Brome
** Heath grass
** Meadow grasses (from naturally mixed grassland swards)
** Orchard grass
** Ryegrass
** Timothy-grass
* Corn (maize)
* Millet
* Oats
* Sorghum
* Soybeans
* Trees (pollard tree shoots for "tree-hay")
* Wheat
Types of fodder
* Compound feed and premixes, often called pellets, nuts or (cattle) cake.
* Crop residues: stover, copra, straw, chaff, sugar beet waste
* Fish meal
* Freshly cut grass and other forage plants
* Meat and bone meal (now illegal in many areas due to risk of BSE)
* Molasses
* Oil cake and press cake
* Oligosaccharides
* Cons read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fodder
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