The aboveground parts of the plant are used for livestock fodder, and its roots are used for human consumption.
Fodder crops include barley, roots, and ley grass.
More than one-third of the sown area is devoted to fodder crops sown grasses, clovers, root crops, and, in the southern districts, corn (maize).
It's time for other countries such as the United States to care that Europe doesn't turn into more fodder for extreme groups to take root and fester.
He harshly judged the folk revival of the late '50s as "a careerist machine … folk songs stripped of their social roots [and] turned into fodder for pop artists".
Three different annual field crops (spring wheat, Triticum aestivum L., winter barley, Hordeum vulgare L. and winter oilseed rape, Brassica napus L). were cultivated either after two continuous years of chicory, Cichorium intybus L., a perennial taprooted fodder crop or after annual crops with fibrous root systems (oats, Avena sativa L. and tall fescue, Festuca arundinacea Schreb).
Alfalfa, if planted on fallowed fields, provided a fine fodder for horses, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria that grew on its roots enhanced the fertility of the soil for subsequent grain crops.
Turnip has an enlarged root that is eaten and occasionally used as fodder.
This need was greatest in grain legumes, sorghums and millets, root, oil and fiber crops, and pasture and fodder crops, all of which could be grown in crop rotations.
But whether they will put down roots -- and whether Chappaqua will remain Chappaqua -- is fodder for speculation and some skepticism.
