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Definition: ing crop is alternated with • Improved wildlife habitat
Protecting Growing crops in a sys- a clean-tilled strip or a strip • Improved crop growth
Water Quality with less protective cover. • Improved soil quality
tematic arrangement of
strips across a field. Types Generally, the strip widths
of strip cropping include are equal across the field. Where This Practice
Author’s email contour, field or buffer. Where sheet and rill Applies and Its
Dennis.Carman@ar. erosion is a concern on slop- Limitations:
usda.gov ing land, the strips are laid
Purposes: This practice is used on
• Reduce soil erosion from out on the contour or across cropland and certain rec-
Editing and Design: the general slope. Where
Forbes Walker water reation and wildlife lands
• Reduce the transport of wind erosion is a concern, where field crops erosion
Wanda Russell
sediment and other water- the strips are laid out as from water or wind is a re-
Gary Dagnan
Anne Dalton borne contaminants closely perpendicular to the source concern. It is most
• Reduce soil erosion from prevailing erosive wind di- effective when grasses and
University of
wind rection as possible. legumes can be rotated with
Tennessee Extension
• Protect growing crops Strip cropping is a multi- crops requiring more inten-
from damage by wind- purpose practice that has sive cultivation. Strip crop-
borne soil particles one or more of the following ping will not be effective
• Improve water quality effects: when land slopes are lon-
• Reduced sheet and rill ger than the critical slope
Developed by SERA-17, How Does erosion length, unless supported by
• Reduced wind erosion other practices that reduce
Minimizing Phosphorus This Practice Work?
Losses from Agriculture • Increased infiltration and slope length below critical
Strip cropping is ef-
http://sera17.ext.vt.edu/ available soil moisture (i.e., diversions, terraces).
fective due to the precise
• Reduced dust emissions
arrangement of the alternat-
into the air Effectiveness:
ing strips in the field. The
• Improved water quality Strip cropping is most
crops are arranged so that a
• Improved visual quality of effective when used in a
strip of grass or close-grow-
the landscape planned conservation sys-
tem that includes a combi-
nation of practices consider-
ing tillage, crop rotations
and field borders. The effec-
tiveness of this practice is
maximized when the strips
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