About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased, and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet.

Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.

The leaves of many fodder crops are also edible by humans, but usually only eaten under famine conditions.

These approaches have allowed transforming this bitter weed into a valuable fodder crop.

Napier grass is the most important fodder crop for the dairy farmers in East Africa.

The rest of the land is used for pasture, fodder crops and cattle and sheep grazing.

Its large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots were developed in the 18th century as a fodder crop for feeding livestock.

The wood has a wide variety of uses, including cabinet-making and the foliage is used as a fodder crop.

The potato was also used extensively as a fodder crop for livestock immediately prior to the famine.

Cultivation of fodder crops began in the 1950s.