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Feed

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

nounCore term

In agriculture, feed means: Food given to farm animals, such as hay, silage, grain or manufactured mixtures, chosen to meet their nutritional needs.

In Turkish: yem, hayvan yemi

How it is used

Usually uncountable. Farmers and nutritionists talk about feed costs, compound feed, concentrate feed and feed rations. Feed is often the largest cost in livestock farming. The verb 'feed' means to give food to animals.

Example sentences

  1. Feed accounts for nearly 70 percent of our production costs.

  2. We switched to a cheaper compound feed, and milk yield dropped.

Common collocations

  • compound feed
  • concentrate feed
  • feed costs
  • feed ration
  • feed conversion ratio
  • foragePlant material such as grass, hay, alfalfa or silage that grazing animals eat, either in the field or after it has been cut and stored.
  • silageGreen fodder such as maize or grass that is chopped, packed tightly and stored without air, so that it ferments and keeps as feed for months.
  • livestockAnimals such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry that are kept on a farm for meat, milk, eggs, wool or work.
  • cattleCows, bulls, steers and calves considered as a group and kept for milk, meat or work.
  • milk yieldThe amount of milk an animal or herd produces, usually measured in liters or kilograms per day or per lactation.

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