Abstract 538

Winter,-WH; Jones,-RJ

CSIRO, Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, Annual Report 1981-82. 1982, 112. Brisbane, Australia.

Animal production was compared on pastures of Pangola grass in association with (a) low mimosine leucaena, (b) L. leucocephala cv. Cunningham at double the row spacing of the low mimosine line, (c) Stylosanthes hamata cv. Verano. The initial stocking rate was 6 steers/ha which was reduced to 4 steers/ha after 6 months on the low mimosine leucaena pasture. Annual liveweight gains on pastures (a), (b) and (c) were from 800-1050, 600-1100 and 915 kg/ha, resp.