Fodder vs. Forage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fodder and Forage
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Fodder
Fodder (), also called provender (), is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage).
Forage
Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage crop is used to define crops, annual or biennial, which are grown to be utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.
Fodder
Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
Forage
Plant material that livestock graze or that is cut and fed to them.
Fodder
Raw material, as for artistic creation.
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Forage
The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.
Fodder
A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply
Romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.
Forage
To wander in search of food or provisions.
Fodder
To feed with fodder.
Forage
To search for a particular food or foods, often in the wild
Foraged for mushrooms.
Foraging in the farmers' markets for choice produce.
Fodder
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Forage
To make a raid, as for food
Soldiers foraging near an abandoned farm.
Fodder
(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
Forage
To conduct a search; rummage
Foraged through the clutter in his closet.
Fodder
Tracing paper.
Forage
To collect forage from; strip of food or supplies
Troops who were foraging the countryside.
Fodder
(figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
Forage
(Informal) To obtain by foraging
Foraged a snack from the refrigerator.
Fodder
(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
Forage
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
Fodder
People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.
Cannon fodder
Forage
An act or instance of foraging.
Fodder
(dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
Forage
(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
Fodder
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19½ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Forage
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
Fodder
That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Forage
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
Fodder
To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
Forage
To rummage.
Fodder
Coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
Forage
Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
Fodder
Give fodder (to domesticated animals)
Forage
The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
One way a band select from forage drivesA herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
Forage
Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Forage
To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
His most mighty father on a hillStood smiling to behold his lion's whelpForage in blood of French nobility.
Forage
To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Forage
Animal food for browsing or grazing
Forage
The act of searching for food and provisions
Forage
Collect or look around for (food)
Forage
Wander and feed;
The animals forage in the woods
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