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Tropical Grasslands
Vol. 17 1983

Contributed Articles March 1983 (No. 1)

   

Presidential Address:
The Tropical Grassland Society and the Modern World — B.H. FORD

1

The effect of seedbed type on the establishment of legumes and grasses at four sites in north Queensland — D.P. THOMSON, J.G. McIVOR and C.J. GARDENER

3

Urea and molasses as a winter supplement for weaner steers grazing improved pasture in central Queensland — T.W.G. GRAHAM, S.J. WOOD, J.L. KNIGHT and G.W. BLIGHT

11

The sulfur and sodium content of forage sorghum in New South Wales — J.L. WHEELER, A.B. DALE and D.A. HEDGES

20

Effects of summer and winter grazing on growth habit of Kenya white clover (Trifolium semipilosum) cv. Safari in a mixed sward. — R.J. SPROULE, H.M. SHELTON and R.M. JONES

25

The effects of fire on a buffel grass and Siratro pasture — L.'t MANNETJE, S.J. COOK and J.H. WILDIN

30

Technical Note: The effect of Gliricidia supplemented dry season forage on the milk yield and composition of MRY (Netherland) cows in Sri Lanka — P.A. CHADHOKAR

39

Proceedings:
Mitchell Grass Management and other aspects of western Queensland rangelands — field meeting, Charleville, March 26 and 27, 1982

41

Book Review

Nitrogen fixation in legumes — Ed. J.M. VINCENT

47

Contributed Articles June 1983 (No. 2)

   

Productivity of six ryegrass (Lolium spp.) cultivars grown as irrigated annuals in the Burnett District of south-east Queensland — G.B. ROBBINS and G.B. FAULKNER

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Seed production of pasture species in a tropical savannah region of Brazil.
I. Legumes; — R.P. DE ANDRADE, D. THOMAS and J.E. FERGUSON

54

Seed production of pasture species in a tropical savannah region of Brazil.
II. Grasses — R.P. DE ANDRADE, D. THOMAS and J.E. FERGUSON

59

Molasses supplementation of steers grazing a tropical grass-legume pasture in north Queensland — L. WINKS, R.W. WALKER, P.K. O'ROURKE, I.D. LOXTON, A.E. HOLMES and K.A. SHAW

64

Grazing time and its diurnal variation in beef steers in coastal south-east Queensland — J.P. EBERSOHN, J. EVANS and J.F. LIMPUS

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The effect of seedbed preparation and sowing time on the establishment of perennial Stylosanthes species — J.G. McIVOR

82

Proceedings:
Pasture Development in the Spear Grass Country of central Queensland — field meeting, Rockhampton May 7 and 8, 1982

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Contributed Articles September 1983 (No. 3)

   

Productivity of a beef breeder herd grazing fertilised pangola grass in the wet coastal lowlands of south-east Queensland — T.J. TIERNEY and W.J. TAYLOR

97

Productivity of pastures and responses to salt supplements by beef cattle on native pasture in north-east Thailand — R.C. GUTTERIDGE, H.M. SHELTON, B. WILAIPON and L.R. HUMPHREYS

105

Natural outcrossing in Stylosanthes capitata — J.W. MILES

114

Scope of siratro introduction into tropical grasslands of central India — C.B. SINGH

117

Evaluation of annual and perennial temperate pasture legumes at medium elevation in the tropics at Bali, Indonesia: A preliminary investigation — O. NURJAYA, I.M. NITIS and E.J. BRITTEN

122

Chemical control of weeds in temperate winter dairy pastures on the Atherton Tableland — D. HAWTON and I.D.G. JOHNSON

128

Utilisation of wet heath on the coastal lowlands of south-east Queensland with beef steers grazing at three stocking rates on pangola grass (Digitaria decumbens) with two rates of applied nitrogen fertiliser.
1. Animal and pasture production. — T.J. TIERNEY and E. GOWARD

132

Proceedings:
Computers and the primary producer — field meeting, Miles Civic Centre and District, October 29 and 30, 1982

139

Book Review

More beef from spear grass country — J.B. HACKER, N.H. SHAW and L. 't MANNETJE

144

Contributed Articles December 1983 (No. 4)

   

Utilisation of wet heath on the coastal lowlands of south-east Queensland with beef steers grazing at three stocking rates on pangola grass (Digitaria decumbens) with two rates of applied nitrogen fertiliser.
2. Pasture chemical composition and soil changes — T.J. TIERNEY and E. GOWARD

145

Productivity and persistence of horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum) under dry season grazing — I.B. STAPLES, P.A. COLMAN and D.E. CROWTHER

152

Supplementation with molasses of steers grazing fertilised pangola grass pastures — T.J. TIERNEY, J. EVANS and W.J. TAYLOR

156

Preliminary studies on the performance of accessions of tropical fine stem stylo (Stylosanthes guianenses var. guianensis) in the eastern plains of Colombia — B. GROF

164

Use of Leucaena leucocephala to supplement yearling and two year old cattle grazing spear grass in south-east Queensland — A.H. FOSTER and G.W. BLIGHT

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Technical Note: Soluble oxalates in summer pastures on a mulga soil — R.G. SILCOCK and FLORA T. SMITH

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Technical Note: Gliricidia sepium as a sole feed for small ruminants — B.A.R. CAREW

181

Proceedings:
Research in and production of the dairy industry in the Fassifern District — field meeting, Mutdapilly Research Station — April 29th, 1983

184

Book Review

Proceedings from the XIV International Grassland Congress — Eds J. ALLAN SMITH and VIRGIL W. HAYS

189

Herbage intake handbook — Ed. J.D. LEAVER

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Nutritional limits to animal production from pastures — Ed. J.B. HACKER

190

Tropical grazing land ecosystems — UNESCO

191


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