Most fields of irrigated row crops along SR33 are feed crops such as alfalfa.
The most important animal feed crop is alfalfa followed by sorghum and corn.
And while the plowing is still in its early stages, everyone here expects the elephants to prepare the fields for next year's feed crops.
Animal wastes are used to fertilize their own feed crops thus intensifying Nitrogen concentrations.
Corn's a good feed crop, but corn's got other uses.
Because of this cattle industry, local farmers grew more corn, alfalfa, and other feed crops during the 1900s and 1910s.
Row crops include feed crops such as Alfalfa.
Most supplementary feed crops are grown in the South Island, where the colder climate forces additional feeding of stock during winter.
Eight percent of global human water use goes towards animal production, including water used to irrigate feed crops.
I do not think that the cultivation of feed crops for intense livestock breeding adversely affects the climate.