feedgrain

English

Etymology

feed +‎ grain

Noun

feedgrain (countable and uncountable, plural feedgrains)

  1. Any of the coarser grains such as corn, milo, and oats.
    • 1981, Padma Desai, Estimates of Soviet Grain Imports in 1980-85: Alternative Approaches, →ISBN:
      The official estimate of the feedgrain requirement in 1980 is about 125.0 million tons.
    • 2013, Pierre Crosson, The Cropland Crisis: Myth or Reality?, →ISBN:
      When wheat is cheap relative to feedgrains, more wheat will be used for feed. When the price of wheat rises relative to feedgrains, less will be used for feed.
    • 2017, Wei-Ming Tian, Grains in China: Foodgrain, Feedgrain and World Trade, →ISBN, page 122:
      Almost all pigs, which were the major source of China's meat supply, were raised with very limited feedgrains.

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