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Contour plowing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Farming with row patterns nearly level around the hill—not up and down hill. ... How it works; Crop row ridges built by tilling and/or planting on the contour create hundreds of small dams. These ridges or dams slow water flow and increase infiltration which reduces erosion.
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Contour Farming & Stripcropping: Tilling and planting across the slope following the contours of the land, and breaking the field into alternating bands of row crops and hay or small grains. ... In contour farming, establish a narrow, permanent strip of grass along each key contour line to avoid having to lay out new...
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Use contour farming on cropland to conserve water and protect soil on sloping fields. ... Contour farming slows water down and lets it soak into the soil. ...
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"Plowing strip just below diversion ditch." Caption from photograph of a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm, taken April 20, 1938. Photograph no. Pa-40351. ; Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/3, file "II. ... Top of Page | Next Page | Previous Page || Container List | Image Index ... The National Agricultural Library;
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Farming in nearly level rows around a hill, as opposed to farming up and down the hill. ... Can reduce soil erosion by as much as 50% from uphill/downhill farming ... Contour farming is most effective on slopes between 2% and 10%.
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Crop row built by tilling and/or planting on the contour create hundreds of small dams like structure. These ridges or dams slow water flow and increase infiltration which reduces erosion. How it Helps; Contouring reduces soil erosion by as much as 50 percent.
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Contour Strip Farming. Dictionary terms for Contour Strip Farming in English, English definition for Contour Strip Farming, Thesaurus and Translations of Contour Strip Farming to English. ... A kind of contour farming in which row crops are planted in strips, between alternating strips of close-growing,
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Strip/contour farming- Dassel, MN...
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Some farmers plant and cultivate their crops to follow the contours of a field. Contour cultivation produces furrows that are perpendicular or at an angle to the slope of the field. ... Strip cropping may be used in flat areas but it also is a kind of contour farming when strips are planted across the slope of a field.
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