Cattle in northern Australia are failing to gain weight and the mystery might be solved by a tiny bacteria. A beneficial bacteria is already used to inoculate the rumen of the cow, which gives them ...

In what should be a win for cattle producers and the environment, work is underway to develop a sterile form of the legume tree known as leucaena. Leucaena is regarded as a high-value fodder crop and ...

The plant is first recorded in Australia at the end of the 19th century, after being imported from New Guinea or Fiji. Leucaena is a small tree that has been planted for fodder in many tropical areas ...

Answer: The tree in the photo is of Leucaena leucocephala or white leadtree. This small tree is native to southern Mexico into Central America. Leacaena has been introduced to sub-tropical regions of ...

Leucaena leucocephala, a fast-growing and versatile tree-legume, has garnered significant research interest due to its multifaceted applications—from protein-rich fodder and agroforestry to potential ...

THE increasing use of the tree legume leucaena in northern Australia’s beef production systems will be showcased next week when the 2018 International Leucaena Conference is held in Queensland from ...

The operation sanctioned by the Forestry Commission granted the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) permission to fell eight mature mahogany trees, six leucaena trees, and prune 43 others. Officials ...

A perfect example of the shortage of vision affecting Caricom governments is their dropping of the ball on the Leucaena project in the early 1980s. Ambassador Byron Blake, former Caricom assistant ...