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{{Short description|Plant material eaten by grazing livestock}} {{Other uses}} [[File:Forage Sorghum of Tamilnadu.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Sorghum]] grown as forage crop.]] '''Forage''' is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by [[grazing]] [[livestock]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Fageria, N.K.|year=1997|title=Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops|publisher=Marcel Dekker|location=NY, NY|pages=595}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Fageria, N.K.|year=1997|title=Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops|publisher=Marcel Dekker|location=NY, NY|pages=583}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Givens|first=D. Ian|title=Forage evaluation in ruminant nutrition|year=2000|publisher=CABI|isbn=978-0-85199-344-7|pages=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=78WIrCCJW-MC&q=forage+definition&pg=PA1}}</ref>
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