Agricultural Engineering Exam  >  Agricultural Engineering Notes  >  Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering  >  Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production

Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering PDF Download

Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.[1] 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.[2] The term forage fish refers to small schooling fish that are preyed on by larger aquatic animals.[3]

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.[4]


Common forages

Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering
Bull feeding on grass


Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering
Horse-drawn transport of fodder in Romania


Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

Meadow of perennial ryegrass(Lolium perenne)

Grasses

  • Agrostis spp. – bentgrasses
    • Agrostis capillaris – common bentgrass
    • Agrostis stolonifera – creeping bentgrass
  • Andropogon hallii – sand bluestem
  • Arrhenatherum elatius – false oat-grass
  • Bothriochloa bladhii – Australian bluestem
  • Bothriochloa pertusa – hurricane grass
  • Brachiaria decumbens – Surinam grass
  • Brachiaria humidicola – koronivia grass
  • Bromus spp. – bromegrasses
  • Cenchrus ciliaris – buffelgrass
  • Chloris gayana – Rhodes grass
  • Cynodon dactylon – bermudagrass
  • Dactylis glomerata – orchard grass
  • Echinochloa pyramidalis – antelope grass
  • Entolasia imbricata – bungoma grass
  • Festuca spp. – fescues
    • Festuca arundinacea – tall fescue
    • Festuca pratensis – meadow fescue
    • Festuca rubra – red fescue
  • Heteropogon contortus – black spear grass
  • Hymenachne amplexicaulis – West Indian marsh grass
  • Hyparrhenia rufa – jaragua
  • Leersia hexandra – southern cutgrass
  • Lolium spp. – ryegrasses
    • Lolium multiflorum – Italian ryegrass
    • Lolium perenne – perennial ryegrass
  • Megathyrsus maximus – Guinea grass
  • Melinis minutiflora – molasses grass
  • Paspalum dilatatum – dallisgrass
  • Phalaris arundinacea – reed canarygrass
  • Phleum pratense – timothy
  • Poa spp. – bluegrasses, meadow-grasses
    • Poa arachnifera – Texas bluegrass
    • Poa pratensis – Kentucky bluegrass
    • Poa trivialis – rough bluegrass
  • Setaria sphacelata – African bristlegrass
  • Themeda triandra – kangaroo grass
  • Thinopyrum intermedium – intermediate wheatgrass

Herbaceous legumes

Herbaceous legume forages include:[7]


Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

Alfalfa


Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

White clover (Trifolium repens)
  • Arachis pintoi – pinto peanut
  • Chamaecrista rotundifolia – roundleaf sensitive pea
  • Clitoria ternatea – butterfly-pea
  • Lotus corniculatus – bird's-foot trefoil
  • Macroptilium atropurpureum – purple bush-bean
  • Macroptilium bracteatum – burgundy bean
  • Medicago spp. – medics
    • Medicago sativa – alfalfa, lucerne
    • Medicago truncatula – barrel medic
  • Melilotus spp. – sweetclovers
  • Neonotonia wightii – perennial soybean
  • Onobrychis viciifolia – common sainfoin
  • Stylosanthes spp. – stylo
    • Stylosanthes humilis – Townsville stylo
    • Stylosanthes scabra – shrubby stylo
  • Trifolium spp. – clovers
    • Trifolium hybridum – alsike clover
    • Trifolium incarnatum – crimson clover
    • Trifolium pratense – red clover
    • Trifolium repens – white clover
  • Vicia spp. – vetches
    • Vicia articulata – oneflower vetch
    • Vicia ervilia – bitter vetch
    • Vicia narbonensis – narbon vetch
    • Vicia sativa – common vetch, tare
    • Vicia villosa – hairy vetch
  • Vigna parkeri – creeping vigna

Tree legumes 

Tree legume forages include:

  • Acacia aneura – mulga
  • Albizia spp. – silk trees
  • Albizia canescens – Belmont siris
  • Albizia lebbeck – lebbeck
  • Enterolobium cyclocarpum – earpodtree
  • Leucaena leucocephala – leadtree
Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

Sheep with silage


Silage

Silage may be composed by the following:[8]

  • Alfalfa
  • Maize (corn)
  • Grass-legume mix
  • Sorghums
  • Oats

Crop residue 

Crop residues used as forage include:

  • Sorghum
  • Corn or soybean stover
The document Forage Crops - Crop Classification, Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering is a part of the Agricultural Engineering Course Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering.
All you need of Agricultural Engineering at this link: Agricultural Engineering
60 docs
60 docs
Download as PDF
Explore Courses for Agricultural Engineering exam
Signup for Free!
Signup to see your scores go up within 7 days! Learn & Practice with 1000+ FREE Notes, Videos & Tests.
10M+ students study on EduRev
Related Searches

Objective type Questions

,

Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

,

Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

,

Crop Production | Crop Production Notes- Agricultural Engineering

,

Free

,

Summary

,

Forage Crops - Crop Classification

,

video lectures

,

Forage Crops - Crop Classification

,

MCQs

,

shortcuts and tricks

,

Semester Notes

,

past year papers

,

Important questions

,

practice quizzes

,

Forage Crops - Crop Classification

,

study material

,

Exam

,

Viva Questions

,

pdf

,

Extra Questions

,

Sample Paper

,

Previous Year Questions with Solutions

,

ppt

,

mock tests for examination

;