A feedlot in Texas, USA, where cattle are "finished" (fattened on grains) prior to slaughter.
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Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry. There are two basic types: fodder and forage. Used alone, the word feed more often refers to fodder. Animal feed is an important input to animal agriculture, and is frequently the main cost of the raising or keeping of animals. Farms typically try to reduce cost for this food, by growing their own, grazing animals, or supplementing expensive feeds with substitutes, such as food waste like spent grain from beer brewing.
Animal wellbeing is highly dependent on feed that reflects a well balanced nutrition. Some modern agricultural practices, such as fattening cows on grains or in feed lots, have detrimental effects on the environment and animals. For example, increased corn or other grain in feed for cows, makes their microbiomes more acidic weakening their immune systems and making cows a more likely vector for E.coli,[1] while other feeding practices can improve animal impacts. For example, feeding cows certain kinds of seaweed, reduces their production of methane, reducing the greenhouse gases from meat production.[2]
When an environmental crisis strikes farmers or herders, such as a drought or extreme weather driven by climate change, farmers often have to shift to more expensive manufactured animal feed, which can negatively effect their economic viability. For example, a 2017 drought in Senegal reduced the availability of grazing lands leading to skyrocketing demand and prices for manufactured animal feed, causing farmers to sell large portions of their herds.[3] Additionally agriculture for producing animal feed puts pressure on land use: feed crops need land that otherwise might be used for human food and can be one of the driving factors for deforestation, soil degradation and climate change.[4]
^"How climate change is plunging Senegal's herders into poverty". The New Humanitarian. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
^Rojas-Downing, M. Melissa; Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan; Harrigan, Timothy; Woznicki, Sean A. (2017-01-01). "Climate change and livestock: Impacts, adaptation, and mitigation". Climate Risk Management. 16: 145–163. doi:10.1016/j.crm.2017.02.001. ISSN 2212-0963.
Animalfeed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry. There are two basic types: fodder and forage. Used...
high-protein/high-energy animalfeed Pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer manufacture and use for feed production Unsustainable use of water for feed-crops, including...
In animal husbandry, a concentrated animalfeeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive...
to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including...
Look up feed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Feed or The Feed may refer to: Animalfeed, food given to domestic animals in the course of animal husbandry...
The prohibition "do not feed the animals" reflects a policy forbidding the artificial feeding of wild or feral animals. Signs displaying this message are...
and tobacco. Cereal grains are one of the main ingredient in animalfeed. The animals most at risk of having serious problems with aflatoxins are trout...
A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animalfeeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses...
Feed manufacturing refers to the process of producing animalfeed from raw agricultural products. Fodder produced by manufacturing is formulated to meet...
In animal husbandry, feed conversion ratio (FCR) or feed conversion rate is a ratio or rate measuring of the efficiency with which the bodies of livestock...
and fertiliser, feed and other inputs are bought onto the farm from outside. Livestock farmers have often dealt with natural world animals' predation and...
Christodoulou, V. (2011). "Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) in animal nutrition: A review". AnimalFeed Science and Technology. 168 (1–2): 1–20. doi:10.1016/j...
Feed the Animals is the fourth studio album by American musician Gregg Gillis, released under his stage name Girl Talk by Illegal Art on June 19, 2008...
a byproduct of corn processing that has historically been used as an animalfeed. Despite the name, corn gluten does not contain true gluten, which is...
Consequently, it is unlikely that those employed in animalfeed production in these regions do not consume the animals that eat the crops they produce. The lack...
production of maize surpassing that of wheat and rice. Much maize is used for animalfeed, whether as grain or as the whole plant, which can either be baled or...
to 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and animalfeed to 2.5 mg/kg. While not legally binding, the levels allow countries to...
B. (1998). "Physical quality of pelleted animalfeed 3. Contribution of feedstuff components". AnimalFeed Science and Technology. 70 (1–2): 59–78. doi:10...
utilization in animalfeeding". Protein sources for the animalfeed industry; FAO Expert Consultation and Workshop on Protein Sources for the AnimalFeed Industry;...
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care...
processed to extract cassava starch, called tapioca, which is used for food, animalfeed, and industrial purposes. The Brazilian farinha, and the related garri...
cake, obtained as a residue in the production of copra oil is used in animalfeeds. The ground cake is known as coconut or copra meal. Copra has traditionally...
Insects as feed are insect species used as animalfeed, either for livestock, including aquaculture, or as pet food. As livestock feed production uses...
Fenugreek is sometimes used as animalfeed. It provides a green fodder palatable to ruminants. The seeds are also used to feed fish and domestic rabbits....
maize, wheat, and rice. Globally 70% of barley production is used as animalfeed, while 30% is used as a source of fermentable material for beer, or further...
density meters. Dry matter can refer to the dry portion of animalfeed. A substance in the feed, such as a nutrient or toxin, can be referred to on a dry...
sometimes called vitamin K3. Use is allowed as a nutritional supplement in animalfeed because of its vitamin K activity. Menadione is converted to vitamin...
kernel meal as a feed for poultry. 1. Composition of palm". Journal of Animalfeed science. Retrieved May 25, 2015. "3. Feed values and feeding potential of...
disease in the UK include not allowing any animal older than 30 months to enter either the human food or animalfeed supply. In continental Europe, cattle...
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