Crops {forage, crop}| can feed ruminants. They are typically herbaceous perennials that are dormant in cold, hot, or dry seasons. Forage crops can be annuals, such as Sudan grass, millet, corn, sorghum, and other legumes and grasses. Ruminants can digest forage cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Forage crops occupy five times more land than human grain crops.
Forage can be fresh and chopped {green chop}.
Forage can be dry {hay}|.
Forage can be dry silage {haylage}.
Forage can be finely chopped and stored in silos to ferment {silage}|.
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