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...
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Foraging is searching for wild food resources. It affects an animal's fitness because it plays an important role in an animal's ability to survive and...
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A forager is a person who collects edible plants or fungi for consumption. Urban foragers may collect in city parks, private lands, and sidewalks. Urban...
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A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. Silage is grass...
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Look up forager or foraging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A forager is one who forages, i. e., looks for forage. Forager may refer to: A hunter-gatherer...
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Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish that feed on planktons (i.e. planktivores) and other small aquatic organisms (e...
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Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory...
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Forage cap is the designation given to various types of military undress, fatigue or working headwear. These vary widely in form, according to country...
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Fodder (redirect from Forage crops)
plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage). Fodder includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted...
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The Forage War was a partisan campaign consisting of numerous small skirmishes that took place in New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War between...
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For bees, their forage or food supply consists of nectar and pollen from blooming plants within their flight range. The forage sources for honey bees are...
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Look up forage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Forage may refer to: Forage, plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock...
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Forage analysis is an integral part of modern animal production. Livestock managers require detailed information about the feedstuffs of their herds in...
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The Feed and Forage Act of 1861 is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess...
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Silo (redirect from Forage wagon)
Low-oxygen silos are only opened directly to the atmosphere during the initial forage loading, and even the unloader chute is sealed against air infiltration...
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Forager is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original Forager first appeared in New Gods #9 (August 1972) and...
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Wagon (redirect from Trap door forage wagon)
wheeler) International Harvester Auto-Buggy Gravity wagon Front unload forage wagon In migration and military settings, wagons were often found in large...
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Arachis glabrata (redirect from Creeping forage peanut)
(creeping forage peanut, rhizoma peanut, rhizoma perennial peanut, perennial forage peanut, golden glory, ornamental peanut grass) is a high-quality forage plant...
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Now, Forager is a 2012 indie film directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin. Now, Forager, billed as "A film about love and fungi", presents the story...
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Bassia prostrata (redirect from Forage kochia)
Bassia prostrata, the forage kochia, is a Eurasian plant in the subfamily Camphorosmoideae of the family Amaranthaceae (formerly treated as Chenopodiaceae)...
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Optimal foraging theory (OFT) is a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food. Although obtaining food provides...
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Shoaling and schooling (section Foraging advantages)
detection and by diluting the chance of individual capture), enhanced foraging success, and higher success in finding a mate. It is also likely that fish...
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Fish migration (section Forage fish)
adult fish live in fresh water and migrate into salt water to spawn. Marine forage fish often make large migrations between their spawning, feeding and nursery...
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Animal feed (section Forage)
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...
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Trifolium repens (category Forages)
cultivated types of clover. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a forage crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas (lawns and gardens) of...
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The Women's Forage Corps (WFC) or Forage Corps (FC) was a British military organisation of World War I. Based at army camps and depots in the United Kingdom...
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Mushroom hunting (redirect from Mushroom foraging)
Mushroom hunting, mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom foraging, and similar terms describe the activity of gathering mushrooms in the wild. This is...
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