Cattle will soon graze on the Atchafalaya Basin Protection levee in west St. Mary Parish. The St. Mary Levee District is planning to allow cattle along sections of the levee because the cattle lower maintenance requirements. “The grass doesn’t grow as fast, obviously because the cattle are there,” Executive Director Tim Matte told the St. Mary Parish Council Wednesday. “The quality of the turf is high because the weeds are knocked down, and of course because there is some limiting of the access to those tracks, so that helps with some of the problems that have crept up on us on certain ...