HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Forage crops include grasses, legumes, crucifers, and other crops grown for hay, pasture, fodder, and silage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Forages are plants or parts of plants eaten by livestock (cows, horses, sheep, goats, llamas), and wildlife (deer, elk, moose, rabbits).

Detailed explanation-3: -Forage crops are crops on which animals graze independently – they are grown specifically to be grazed by livestock or conserved as hay or silage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fodder refers mostly the crops which are harvested and used for stall feeding. Forage may be defined as the vegetative matter, fresh or preserved, utilised as feed for animals. Forage crops include grasses, legumes, crucifers and other crops cultivated and used in the form of hay, pasture, fodder and silage.