Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)
Forage Production and Feeds
HUS1004
Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)

Forage Production and Feeds

HUS1004
The course gives an introduction to forage production of both roughage, feed concentrates and pasture in Norwegian growing conditions.

The course encompasses the following main themes:

  • relevant feed means in Norwegian livestock production
  • soil as a cultivation medium, soil structure, nutrients and erosion
  • plant growths
  • meadland farming, pasture and other feed plants
  • grass conservation
  • grain growing
  • grains, grain trade and roughage raw materials
  • manufacturing and processing of roughage
  • alternative feed and forage

The subject is reserved for students of the following study programmes:

  • Animal Sciences - Welfare and Production, Bachelor’s Programme
  • Livestock Sciences, Bachelor’s Programme

Other students can get admitted if there are places available. Contact student advisor. 

Students must meet current admission requirements for the associated study program.

After completing the course, the student will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

  • can describe Norwegian feedproduction and the most relevant feed means in Norwegian livestock production including pastures.
  • can describe how soil, nutrients, plant growths and growing conditions affects the potential for a good agronomical result for pastures and other Norwegian feed plants, both in conventional and ecological farming.
  • can explain how different harvest times affects roughage quality
  • can describe the most relevant conservation methods for roughage
  • has expund Norwegian cereal production and the framework conditions for grain trading and roughage production

Skills:

  • can assess the consequences of different operating and conservation aspects for crops and the quality of homegrown feed and how this affects the need for concentrates.
  • can interpret analyses to argue for and suggest improvement of existing plans for growing, harvesting and conservation of roughage

General competence:

  • can combine professional knowledge with insight into relevant research and development work, as well as present and recommend alternative farming arrangements
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal.
Compulsory
Lectures and excursions.
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.

Compound assessment, A-F

  • Assessment task - 2 assignments, worth 0/100 of the grade. Pass/Fail.
    • Must be completed and passed before proceeding to the written school examination.
  • Written school examination, 4 hours, worth 100/100 of the grade, A-F

Pen, ruler, up to 2 bilingual dictionaries and calculator.

Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.