Study Show Importance of Grazing Permits

Lorrie Boyer
Reporter
“Once a cow eats cheatgrass, particularly in a late season seeding scenario, the time it takes for that cheatgrass seed to work itself through the digestive process, to go through that rumination process, those seeds, when they come out the other end, are effectively inert. They're not going to germinate.”
“This study highlights the challenges the PLC has encountered as cheat grass has spread rapidly across the West. Some climate activists have attempted to blame cattle grazing for the spread, but the study disproves that claim, offering evidence to the contrary.If you graze it down, you see a significant reduction in cheatgrass that comes back the next year, and we were trying to figure out why, right? And so this study from the University of Nevada, Reno says that if you graze it down, you're not going to have the germination next spring, and that allows these native grasses to sprout up to out compete the cheatgrass and return to a more native grass scenario.”