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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a forage" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "forage" is typically used as a verb or a noun without the article "a," as it refers to the act of searching for and gathering food or provisions.
Example: "The animals went out to forage for food in the forest."
Alternatives: "a search for food" or "a gathering of provisions."
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For the next few months, they engaged in a forage war, in which each targeted the foraging parties of the other.
In the centre they planted a "forage spiral" of wild and edible plants.
It is widely grown in warmer areas for the fruit and as a forage crop.
I added some shiners, a forage fish that would supplement the trout's basic diet of insects and small amphibians.
She likes to go out on a forage, she says, and her art "usually begins with something I find".
For a while, government officials encouraged the use of cogongrass as a forage crop and as a way to stem soil erosion.
Johnson grass, for instance, was introduced as a forage crop to America in the early 19th century and is now considered a great nuisance.
As a forage feeder, the fish functions as a sieve for plankton, turning it into protein and fat that nourish creatures further up the food chain.
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Alternative Meats (0844 545 6070, alternativemeats.co.uk) sells various cuts of Herdwick mutton, which must have a "forage-based" diet of grass, heather and root crops, ranging in price from £5 to £17.
Diets had a forage-to-concentrate ratio of 40 60 on a DM basis.
The basal diet had a forage-to- concentrate ratio of 50 50 (dry matter basis).
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