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strip-cropping

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strip-cropping [′strip ‚kräp·iŋ]
(agriculture)
Growing separate crops in adjacent strips that follow the contour of the land as a method of reducing soil erosion.
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THE 1930s Dust Bowl that threatened to turn America's Great Plains into a vast desert was a traumatic experience that led to revolutionary changes in the nation's agricultural practices, including the planting of tree shelterbelts (rows of trees planted beside fields) and strip-cropping (the planting of wheat on alternate strips with fallowed land each year).
Rebuilding valuable soil by Brown, Lester R. / USA Today (Magazine)
The family's farm, located in the Coon Valley watershed area, was one of the first farms to participate in a pioneering strip-cropping conservation project in the 1930s.
One family farm is saved by organics: and provided community jobs ... by Enger-Galloway, Claudine / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
 
 
 
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