Animal/Pet Food Market Research Reports

Fodder or animal food is any agricultural foodstuff used particularly to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from vegetation, however some is of animal origin. "Fodder" refers significantly to meals given to the animals (including plants lower and carried to them), slightly than that which they forage for themselves (see forage). It contains hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and blended rations, and sprouted grains and legumes.

The worldwide animal feed industry consumed 635 million tons of feed (compound feed equivalent) in 2006, with an annual development rate of about 2%. The usage of agricultural land to develop feed fairly than human meals can be controversial; some forms of feed, similar to corn (maize), may serve as human meals; people who can't, akin to grassland grass, could also be grown on land that can be utilized for crops consumed by humans. Some agricultural byproducts fed to a...
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Fodder or animal food is any agricultural foodstuff used particularly to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from vegetation, however some is of animal origin. "Fodder" refers significantly to meals given to the animals (including plants lower and carried to them), slightly than that which they forage for themselves (see forage). It contains hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and blended rations, and sprouted grains and legumes.

The worldwide animal feed industry consumed 635 million tons of feed (compound feed equivalent) in 2006, with an annual development rate of about 2%. The usage of agricultural land to develop feed fairly than human meals can be controversial; some forms of feed, similar to corn (maize), may serve as human meals; people who can't, akin to grassland grass, could also be grown on land that can be utilized for crops consumed by humans. Some agricultural byproducts fed to animals could also be thought of unsavory by human consumers.

Prior to now, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") spread by the inclusion of ruminant meat and bone meal in cattlefeed because of prion contamination. This observe is now banned in most nations where it has occurred. Some animals have a lower tolerance for spoiled or moldy fodder than others, and certain sorts of molds, toxins, or toxic weeds inadvertently mixed right into a feed supply could cause financial losses attributable to illness or loss of life of the animals. The US Dept. of Health and Human Services regulates medication of the Veterinary Feed Directive kind that may be current inside industrial livestock feed.

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