soilage

Fresh-cut livestock feed

Soilage is fresh-cut forage fed to livestock rather than allowing animals to graze in pastures—a practice also called green chop or zero grazing.

The farmer brings the food to the animals instead of the animals to the food.

Separately, soilage can mean the act of soiling or the condition of being soiled: Check the linens for soilage.

staining

blot

Mark left by spillage

  • smudgeUnclear dirty mark
  • spotMark or location
  • markVisible impression or sign

blemish · discoloration · grime · dirt · filth · muck · splatter · smear · muddying · dirtying

fodder

silage

Fermented crop fodder

legumes · grasses · pasture · grazing · feeding · cattle · ruminants · mowing · harvesting · nutrition

contamination

pollution

Environmental harm from waste

  • toxinsHarmful biological substances
  • spillAccidental liquid release
  • leakageUnintended fluid escape

waste · hazardous · taint · impurity · pesticides · effluent · runoff · groundwater · chemicals · industrial

erosion

sediment

Particles settling in liquid

  • runoffExcess water drainage
  • gullyChannel carved by flowing water
  • weatheringAtmospheric breakdown of materials

deforestation · overgrazing · siltation · washout · leaching · degradation · denudation · alluvium · compaction · desertification

Opposites
cleanliness/contamination

soilagecleanliness

Absence of dirt

purity · spotlessness · immaculateness · pristineness · sanitation

animal feed type

soilagehay

Dried feed crop

silage · grain · concentrates

Family

soil, soiled, soils, soiling, unsoiled

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