Cows fed fodder had lesser (P < 0.05) milk protein production but greater (P < 0.05) milk urea N. Income over feed costs favored not feeding fodder except when cracked corn prices increased by 50% over those used in the study.
While the most recently enacted farm bill will not expire until next month, disaster relief that would have helped some livestock producers cope with the high costs of feed and fodder lapsed last week.
It has considerable importance as a food, feed and fodder.
Through social fencing, the wastelands were regenerated to satisfy the feed and fodder requirements of the beneficiaries.
In general, feed and fodder are first ingested and absorbed in the stomach of ruminants, the rest are ingested in the small and large intestine.
These cultivated forage grasses provide numerous benefits to humans, including providing feed and fodder for millions of dairy and beef cattle, horses, sheep, and countless wild animals [ 5].
High protein and carbohydrate content makes it not only important for the human diet, but also suitable as high protein feed and fodder for livestock.
Its major end-uses are as feed or fodder, but improvements in its grain milling and bread making quality could allow an extension to its use in human consumption or as an industrial feedstock.
It is especially important as a staple food grain, and source of feed and fodder for livestock, in hot, dry marginal agricultural production environments of Africa and South Asia that are home to hundreds of millions of the world's poorest farmers [ 1].
Similarly, the nutritive value of this plant for animals has been documented by Mendieta-Araica et al. [ 1], who reported that moringa contains large amount of crude protein, iron, zinc, and high concentration of vitamins A, B, and C in its foliage sample which makes it a very good feed and fodder for animals to browse and graze upon [ 9].
