Contributed Articles March 2003 (No. 1)

The response of Panicum maximum to a simulated subcanopy environment.
2. Soil × shade × water interaction — P.A. DURR and J. RANGEL

Nitrogen fixation and growth of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) in a sodic soil as affected by gypsum and sulphur inoculated with Thiobacillus and rhizobial inoculation — N.P. STAMFORD, A.D.S. FREITAS, D.S. FERRAZ, A. MONTENEGRO and C.E.R.S. SANTOS

Evaluation of forage legumes and grasses on seasonally waterlogged sites in north-east Thailand — M.D. HARE, C. KAEWKUNYA, P. TATSAPONG and
M. SAENGKHAM

Managing rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) cv. Callide to improve diet quality.
1. Effects of age of regrowth, strip grazing and mulching — W.K. EHRLICH, R.T. COWAN and K.F. LOWE

Managing rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) cv. Callide to improve diet quality.
2. Effects of stocking rate and irrigation frequency — W.K. EHRLICH, R.T. COWAN and K.F. LOWE

Current range condition in southern Ethiopia in relation to traditional management strategies: The perceptions of Borana pastoralists — AYANA ANGASSA and FEKADU BEYENE

Book Review

Managing and Conserving Grassy Woodlands

Notes for Contributors

Contributed Articles June 2003 (No. 2)

Effect of stocking rates on animal gain, pasture yield and composition, and soil properties from setaria-nitrogen and setaria-legume pastures in coastal south-east Queensland — R.M. JONES and R.J. JONES

The effect of frequency of pasture allocation on the milk production, pasture intake and behaviour of grazing cows in a subtropical environment — B.C. GRANZIN

A feeding strategy of combining tropical grass species for stall-fed dairy cows —
J.M.N. BWIRE, H. WIKTORSSON and A.J. MWILAWA

Forage yield, nutritive value, feed intake and digestibility of three grass species as affected by harvest frequency — NGO VAN MAN and HANS WIKTORSSON

Influence of seedbed preparation and grazing management on seed production of four tropical legumes in the establishment year — C.K. McDONALD, R.M. JONES and S.J. COOK

Nitrogen cycling in degraded Leucaena leucocephala-Brachiaria decumbens pastures on an acid infertile soil in south-east Queensland, Australia — S.T.M. BURLE, H.M. SHELTON and S.A. DALZELL

Contributed Articles September 2003 (No. 3)

Effects of sown grasses and stocking rates on pasture and animal production from legume-based pastures in the seasonally dry tropics — R.J. Jones

Experiences with farm pastures at the former CSIRO Samford Research Station, south-east Queensland, and how these relate to results from 40 years of research — R.M. JONES and G.A. BUNCH

Spring burning and splitting of nitrogen application may affect dry matter yield and flowering of Digitaria eriantha (Smuts finger grass) — PIETER A. PIETERSE

Defoliation of Paspalum atratum during the growing season affects tiller and plant density the following spring — R.S. KALMBACHER and F.G. MARTIN

Competition affects survival and growth of buffel grass seedlings — is buffel grass a coloniser or an invader? — JOHN G. McIVOR

Ergot resistance in plants of Paspalum dilatatum incorporated by hybridisation with Paspalum urvillei — G.E. SCHRAUF, M.A. BLANCO, P.S. CORNAGLIA, V.A.   DEREGIBUS, M. MADIA, M.G. PACHECO, J. PADILLA, A.M. GARCÍA and  C. QUARÍN

Research note: An observation on yield and nutritive value of Sesbania aculeata and its feeding to Damascus does — M. ZARKAWI, M.R. Al-MASRI and K. KHALIFA

Contributed Articles December 2003 (No. 4)

Forage demand and adoption by smallholder livestock keepers workshop

Current and future needs for forages

Forage technology adoption: linking on-station research with participatory methods — M. PETERS and C.E. LASCANO

Farmer demand for forages

Tropical forage research for the future — better use of research resources to deliver adoption and benefits to farmers — B.C. PENGELLY, A. WHITBREAD, P.R. MAZAIWANA and N. MUKOMBE

Case studies on uptake of forage innovations in livestock production systems

Assessing factors influencing adoption of pastures and fodders amongst smallholder subsistence farmers in selected districts of west Kenya — J.M. WANYAMA, F.N. MUYEKHO, A.A.O. MASINDE, D.T. CHERUIYOT, J. ODONGO, M. OJOWI and R. OKEYO

Adoption of forage legumes: the case of Desmodium intortum and Calliandra calothyrsus in central Kenya — D.M. MWANGI and C. WAMBUGU

The adoption and scaling up of the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya — S. FRANZEL, C. WAMBUGU, P. TUWEI and G. KARANJA

Development and transfer of forage production technologies for smallholder dairying: case studies of participatory evaluation of species and methods of establishment in western Kenya — F.N. MUYEKHO, L. MOSE and D.T. CHERUIYOT

Community-based forage development program: the experiences of FARM Africa Goat Project in Ethiopia — ZEWDU AYELE

Determinants of adoption of improved forage technologies in crop–livestock mixed systems: evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia — B. GEBREMEDHIN, M.M. AHMED and S.K. EHUI

Forage demand and constraints to adoption of forage technologies by livestock keepers in Malawi — MOFFAT KUMWENDA and AUSTIN NGWIRA

Farmer experiences in the production and utilisation of fodder trees in Zimbabwe: constraints and opportunities for increased adoption — L. HOVE, S. FRANZEL and P.S. MOYO

Adoption of dual-purpose forages: some policy implications — M.L.A. LAPAR and S. EHUI

Promoting adoption of forage technologies

Integrating forage technologies on smallholder farms in the upland tropics — R. ROOTHAERT, P. HORNE and W. STÜR

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