animal feed; fodder
Refers to food prepared or supplied for animals, especially livestock; more technical or industry-oriented than the everyday word 餌.
The farmer gave feed to the cattle.
The price of imported animal feed is rising.
The farmer gives feed to the cows.
Efforts are advancing to turn food waste into animal feed.
This grain is used as animal feed.
飼料 is the general word for animal feed of any kind (grain, hay, mixed feed), whereas 牧草 refers specifically to the grass itself.
資料 is a common homophone meaning documents or materials, completely unrelated in meaning to 飼料, which means animal feed.
A Sino-Japanese compound written with 飼, associated with raising or feeding animals, and 料, material or provisions; together it denotes material used as feed.