Contributed Articles March 1991 (No. 1)

Sward evaluation of fifteen Stylosanthes hamata accessions in twenty dry tropical environments — L.A. EDYE, T.J. Hall, C.H. MIDDLETON, W.B. MESSER, C.M. PIGGIN, A.C. SCHLINK and N.M. KLEPACKI

Effect of grazing on native gramineae in Concepción, Santa Cruz, Bolivia — T.J. KILLEEN

Variation in flowering time, dry matter production and seed yield among annual Trifolium species, Ethiopia — J. KAHURANANGA and A. TSEHAY

The residual effect of Stylosanthes fodder banks on maize yield at several locations in Nigeria — G. TARAWALI

Pasture legume evaluation on seasonally flooded soils in the Northern Territory — B.J. ROSS and A.G. CAMERON

The effect of seedbed and sowing time on establishment of Siratro and Gatton panic into native pasture — K.F. LOWE and T.M. BOWDLER

Nitrogen fixation in Desmanthus: strain specificity of Rhizobium and responses to inoculation in acidic and alkaline soil — R.A. DATE

A minimum facility method for in vitro collection of Digitaria eriantha ssp. pentzii and Cynodon dactylon — T.J. RUREDZO

Book Review

A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland

Contributed Articles June 1991 (No. 2)

Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on Tropical Pastures — Sustainable tropical pasture systems

Managing the grazing resource for animal production in savannas of tropical America — C.E. LASCANO

Sustaining productive pastures in the tropics

1. Managing the soil resource — J. WILLIAMS and C.J. CHARTERS

2. Managing woody vegetation in grazing lands — J.C. SCANLAN, B.J. WILSON and E.R. ANDERSON

3. Managing native grasslands — J.G. McIVOR and D.M. ORR

4. Augmenting native pasture with legumes — C.P. MILLER and T.G.H. STOCKWELL

5. Maintaining productive sown grass pastures — R.J.K. MYERS and G.B. ROBBINS

6. Nitrogen fertilised grass pastures — J.K. TEITZEL, M.A. GILBERT and R.T. COWAN

7. Tree and shrub legumes in improved pastures — H.M. SHELTON, J.B. LOWRY, R.C. GUTTERIDGE, R.A. BRAY and J.H. WILDIN

8. Persistence and productivity of temperate legumes with tropical grasses — N.M. CLARKSON, P.T. MEARS, K.F. LOWE and D.L. LLOYD

9. Managing cattle — T.G.H. STOCKWELL, P.C. SMITH, D.M. STAFFORD SMITH and D.J. HIRST

10. Forage and feeding systems for cattle — W.H. WINTER, L. WINKS and R.M. SEEBECK

11. An ecological perspective — W.H. BURROWS

12. Decision support software as an aid to managing pasture systems — J.F. CLEWETT, J.M. CAVAYE, G.M. McKEON, I.J. PARTRIDGE and J.C. SCANLAN

Sustaining multiple production systems

1. Forest and fodder trees in mulitple use systems in the tropics — D.M.CAMERON, R.C. GUTTERIDGE and S.J. RANCE

2. Soil fertility decline and restoration of cropping lands in sub-tropical Queensland — R.C. DALAL, W.M. STRONG, E.J. WESTON and J. GAFFNEY

3. Ley pastures in the subtropics — D.L. LLOYD, K.P. SMITH, N.M. CLARKSON, E.J. WESTON and B. JOHNSON

4. Ley pastures in crop-livestock systems in the semi-arid tropics — R.K. JONES, N.P. DALGLIESH, J.P. DIMES and R.L. McCOWN

5. Sown pastures for marginal cropping lands in the subtropics — W.D. BELLOTTI, A. BOWMAN and R.G. SILCOCK

Case studies — sustainable farming systems

Likely climatic changes and their impact on the northern pastoral industry — J.S. RUSSELL

Sustaining tropical pastures — summative address — B. WALKER

Conference Posters Note

Techincal Notes

An economic comparison of three legume establishment technologies for spear grass dominant pastures — N.D. MacLEOD, S.J. COOK and P.A. WALSH

Pasture management: Current and recommended stocking rates in the Maranoa region, Queensland — T.W.G. GRAHAM, R.A. CLARK, P.T. KNIGHTS, D.N. LAWRENCE, R. MURPHY, B.K. SLATER and C.M. WARRIAN

Long-term botanical studies show Sabi grass to be tolerant of low soil phosphorus — D.B.COATES

Madiera serradella — a winter legume for sandy soils on the Darling Downs — B. JOHNSON and D.L. LLOYD

Effect of time of tiller emergence and nitrogen on seed yield components of Digitaria eriantha cv. Premier — L. RAMIREZ and J.B. HACKER

Conference Posters

Conference Delegates

Contributed Articles September 1991 (No. 3)

Evaluation of bred populations and cultivars of Setaria sphacelata — J.B. HACKER

Seed production potential in bred populations and cultivars of Setaria sphacelata — J.B. HACKER

Agronomic performance of Stylosanthes guianensis cv. Pucallpa in the American tropical rainforest ecosystem — M.C. AMEZQUITA, J.M. TOLEDO and G. KELLER-GREIN

Use of DHP-degrading rumen bacteria to overcome toxicity in cattle grazing irrigated leucaena pasture — D. PRATCHETT, R.J. JONES and F.X. SYRCH

Effect of age of forage tree legumes at the first cutting on subsequent production — A. ELLA, G.J. BLAIR and W.W. STÜR

Effect of plant density and cutting frequency on the yield of four tree legumes and interplanted Panicum maximum cv. Riversdale — A. ELLA, W.W. STÜR, G.J. BLAIR and C.N. JACOBSEN

The growth of Chloris gayana pasture within and adjacent to a plantation of Eucalyptus grandis — J.B. ROBINSON

Responses of Desmanthus virgatus, Desmodium heterocarpon, and Galactia elliotii to defoliation — J.P. MUIR and W.D. PITMAN

In vitro fibre digestion: Associative effects in tropical grass-legume mixtures — W.F. BROWN, Z.Q. LAI and W.D. PITMAN

Concentration and degradation of nitrogen and fibre fractions in selected tropical grasses and legumes — W.F. BROWN and W.D. PITMAN

A comparison of Leucaena leucocephala and Leucaena pulverulenta leaf and stem age classes for nutrition value — P. BASSALA, P. FELKER and D.H.D. SWAKON

Contributed Articles December 1991 (No. 4)

Selectivity of resident and oesophageal fistulated steers grazing Arachis pintoi and Brachiaria dictyoneura in the Llanos of Colombia — J.E. CARULLA, C.E. LASCANO and J.K. WARD

Drying rates of tropical grasses — J.L. COSTA and J.A. GOMIDE

Burning and exclosure can rehabilitate degraded black speargrass (Heteropogon contortus) pastures — D.M. ORR, G.M. McKEON and K.A. DAY

Sericea lespedeza production on acid soils in Swaziland — P.D. MKHATSHWA and C.S. HOVELAND

Mechanised forage production of Leucaena leucocephala and L. pulverulenta — R.K. FELKER, R.K. CHAMALA, E.L. GLUMAC, C. WIESMAN and M. GREENSTEIN

Production and nutritive value of browse species in semi-arid Kenya — F.P. WANDERA, B.H. DZOWELA and M.K. KARACHI

Effect of the leucaena psyllid on yield of Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham in south-east Queensland — R.A. BRAY and T.D. WOODROFFE

Comparative growth of some African clovers planted at different times — L.S. AKUNDABWENI, J.R. LAZIER and G. LEMME

Anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) development in a Stylosanthes spp. based pasture in response to fire and rain — R.D. DAVIES

Book Review

Tropical pasture utilisation

Managed grasslands — regional studies

Managed grasslands — analytical studies

New Herbage Plant Cultivar

Macroptilium longipedunculatum cv. Maldonado

Awards of the Tropical Grasslands Society

Author Index