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| Oats |
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A cereal crop grown for animal feed and for cereal foods for human consumption.
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| Oilseed crops |
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Primarily soybeans, and other crops such as peanuts, cottonseed, sunflower seed, flaxseed, safflower seed, rapeseed, sesame seed, castor beans, canola, rapeseed and mustard seeds used to produce edible and/or inedible oils, as well as high-protein animal meal.
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| Oilseed meal |
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The product obtained by grinding the cakes, chips, or flakes that remain after most of the oil is removed from oilseeds. Used as a feedstuff for livestock and poultry.
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| Oilseed Rape |
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An arable crop, also known as canola, grown for the extraction of oil from the seeds. Rapeseed (canola) meal, a byproduct of the oil extraction process is used as a high-protein animal feed.
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| Oligotrophic |
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Nutrient poor (not necessarily base poor).
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| Omnivores |
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Animals that feed on material of both plant and animal origin.
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| Open center circuit |
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One in which pump delivery flows freely through the system and back to the reservoir in neutral.
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| Open center valve |
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One in which all ports are interconnected and open to each other in the center or neutral position.
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| Organic |
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Nutrient that is vegetable or animal origin.
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| Organic matter |
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The total weight of the feed minus the weight of the mineral matter (or ash) in the feed.
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| Orifice |
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A restriction, the length of which is small in respect to its cross-sectional dimensions.
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