Commentary for Menachot 142:2

וליטעמיך ששה שבעה הוו אלא סמי מכאן קצירה:

ONE MAY REAP THE UNRIPE CORN AND FEED CATTLE THEREWITH. We have learnt elsewhere: These are the things which divide a field [into two] with respect to pe'ah: a river, a pool, a private or a public road, a public or a private path that is in use both during the summer and the rainy season, fallow land or newly broken land, and a different kind of crop. If one reaped the unripe corn [as fodder, the part so reaped] divides the field. So R. Meir; but the Sages say, This part does not divide the field unless it was also ploughed up. Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said in the name of R. Johanan. R. Meir based his ruling on the principle enunciated by R. Simeon [in our Mishnah] who said, ONE MAY REAP IT AND FEED [CATTLE THEREWITH] EVEN AFTER IT HAS REACHED A THIRD OF ITS GROWTH. For he is of the opinion that any [cutting of] unripe corn [for fodder] is no reaping.

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