Animal feed

Animal feed

Of or relating to the food products given to farmed animals.

Industry: Agriculture

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Oilseed crops

Agriculture; Animal feed

Primarily soybeans, and other crops such as peanuts, cottonseed, sunflower seed, flaxseed, safflower seed, rapeseed, sesame seed, castor beans, canola, rapeseed and mustard seeds used to produce ...

Oilseed meal

Agriculture; Animal feed

The product obtained by grinding the cakes, chips, or flakes that remain after most of the oil is removed from oilseeds. Used as a feedstuff for livestock and poultry.

Oilseed rape

Agriculture; Animal feed

An arable crop, also known as canola, grown for the extraction of oil from the seeds. Rapeseed (canola) meal, a byproduct of the oil extraction process is used as a high-protein animal feed.

Milligrammes in a kilogramme (mg/kg)

Agriculture; Animal feed

Units of concentration. This measure is the same as parts per million (ppm). 1 mg/kg = 1 ppm

Millimetre

Agriculture; Animal feed

A unit of length equal to one thousandth of a metre (0.0394 inches).

Minor minerals

Agriculture; Animal feed

Minerals such as copper and zinc that are included in a ration in very small amounts. Usually measured in 1/1000 of a gramme or milligrammes per head per day.

Mycotoxins are substances produced by moulds that contaminate various agricultural commodities either before harvest or under post-harvest conditions. Mycotoxins can appear in the food chain either ...