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Show Pasture Cresfed Wheaf grass I'ow Ranchers have been concerned con-cerned that early spring grazing would damage the grass on their ranges seeded seed-ed to crested wheatgrass. "Not so," says Karl G. Parker, extension range specialist, Utah State University. Uni-versity. He emphasizes that the time to graze crested wheat -grass is when it greens up and starts growing. That's when the livestock need the green feed most, when it is most nutritious and when grazing hurts these plants the least, provided they are in reasonably good vigorous condition. Parker said, "Crested wheatgrass is primarily a spring pasture grass. You injure it most by grazing it later when it is shooting up seed stalks and when seed is forming. Grazing early is easier on the grass than grazing in late spring or earlv summer." He says these principles have been born out through studies conducted over a |