… literature highlighting the significance of forage crops, the current … plant and grain crops can
be applied to forage crops. The … offer great scope to improve forage crops. Given the social, …

This chapter provides some insight into animal science and some perspectives about
forage quality and utilization of forages by ruminant livestock. Good managers of forage‐livestock …

… Thus, some of the initial conscious selection practiced on forage crops may have enhanced
forage nutritional value as we know it or may have protected plants from degradation of …

… Forage crops are considered under the main headings of: forages in our society; forage
improvement, production, management and utilization; forage legumes; and forage grasses. …

… is to optimize the protein/energy balance of forage and value it in a similar way to other …
structural carbohydrates while forage legumes are rich in protein. The main forage legumes used …

… forage crops into crop-livestock farming system in Ethiopia. The method of integration used
for a specific farming system mainly depends on the type of forage crops, food crops, … crop …

… We define “cultivated forage crops” as any grass, legume or food-feed crop species that has
been deliberately seeded by farmers to provide grazing and fodder for livestock. In FAO land …

… soil-forage-… forage should be considered not as a single parameter, but as composed of a
complex of parameters that determine the nutrient intake of ruminant animals fed on that forage…

… ies with the crop, such crops are all char acterized by a relatively high content of … of forage
crop agriculture is that much of the land on which forages grow is not suitable for other crops, …

… characteristics of forage crops and basic nutrient requirements of farm animals. Concluding
chapters concern crop residues, grasslands and their management and forage crop breeding…