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	Ridge and furrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phenomenon was created as a result of the strip cultivation that was widely practised at the time whereby large fields were divided into long, narrow plots called furlongs.
		It originally derived from the Old English words for a 'furrow length' and was then taken to mean a length of ploughing across an acre (4047 m²) of land and so its exact value would vary dependant on local constraints.
		Each strip would be cultivated separately by different families who would turn the ploughed soil into the centre of their strip by the continued use of a non-reversing plough, creating over many years raised ridges bounded by deep furrows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ridge_and_furrow (393 words)

	M30E07.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The cultivation techniques in use vary greatly and depend upon the nature of the terrain, the existing vegetation and the physical characteristics of the soil.
		In semi-arid and arid regions of the Mediterranean basin, gradoni-type ditches are built on contours of sloping land by ploughing the soil at gradients of 20-40 percent.
		Entire area cultivation or clean cultivation is a pre-planting soil preparation which usually consists of two consecutive stages: pioneer ploughing; and disking and harrowing prior to planting (or top soil tillage using a disc harrow).
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/006/AD083E/AD083e05.htm (2793 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 6, No. 4 - Afforestation techniques in Cyprus
		Clean cultivation in the strip to a depth of 15 centimeters has proved of vital importance to the survival of seedlings.
		The cultivated strips are sown broadcast in January to 'March at the rate of 6 kilos per hectare (pine), and the seed lightly covered by raking.
		As a result of this clean cultivation system, no irrigation is necessary, as the spring cultivation gives a surface mulch which reduces soil evaporation -losses and preserves soil moisture sufficient for the young trees, so that even in abnormally dry years casualities in new plantations rarely exceed 5 percent.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5365e/x5365e03.htm (2934 words)

	Management of Agricultural Landscapes
		Cultivation, or tillage, of soil is integral to the process of raising most crops.
		The amount of cultivation of rowcrop fields influences bird use by affecting the amount of crop residue on the surface of the soil.
		Strip cover provides habitat for most of the Neotropical migratory birds of agricultural landscapes because it is used by birds requiring either herbaceous or woody vegetation.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /agricultural_management.htm (6499 words)

	CHAPTER 2
		The cultivation that they represent does not evenly "cut out" the valley and ridge slopes in the first contour strip, that is from the Keyline to the 170-foot contour line.
		The cultivation runs are again generally higher in the valley than on the adjacent ridges in the same contour strip.
		Cultivation above the Keyline is first completed to enable land, usually the steeper areas, to absorb the maximum or all the rain that falls on it.
	www.soilandhealth.org /01aglibrary/010125yeomans/010125ch2.html (1450 words)

	Tillage Best Management Practices for Water Quality Protection in Southeastern Minnesota
		Corn yield response to in-season cultivation varies from year to year, but positive benefits may be obtained in the absence of weeds on soils that crust easily.
		Cultivation reduced the density of giant foxtail, especially as tillage was reduced, but had no effect on velvetleaf.
		In-season cultivation was of great benefit for all tillage systems, resulting in an average yield increase of 23 bu/A. Lower yields with no tillage were due primarily to wooly cupgrass and giant foxtail competition.
	www.extension.umn.edu /distribution/cropsystems/components/7694c05.html (2252 words)

	National Sunflower Association : Sunflower Magazine
		Knives on the strip tiller (most commonly set at a 30” spacing) prepare the seedbed and place fertilizer (dry or liquid, depending on the setup of a particular unit) simultaneously.
		Each strip tiller (which Lenz refers to officially as the “Thru-Flow strip-till deep bander”) is custom finished depending on the growing area, he notes, fitted with different blades or knives depending on user needs.
		The tractor requirement to pull a strip tiller is a minimum of 160 horsepower with 3 hydraulic remotes, and capable of a fourth hose to relieve back pressure from the air delivery fan.
	www.sunflowernsa.com /magazine/details.asp?ID=212&Cat=2 (786 words)

	Soil Erosion Control Training Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The other important consequence of population growth has been the expansion of the total area under cultivation and, because the area of land that can be handled by a farmer using simple hand tools is limited, the increase in population has led to a corresponding increase in the number of small subsistence farmers.
		The grass filter strips are usually 2 metres wide at intervals of between 5 m and 20 m depending on the slope of the land, being closer on steep slopes.
		Erosion is exacerbated by attempting to farm slopes that are too steep, cultivating up-and-down hill, continuous use of land for same crop without fallow or rotation, inadequate use of fertilisers, and compaction of the soil through the use of heavy machinery.
	www.ecs.co.sz /env_articles_soilerosion.htm (5879 words)

	ARIJ - Dryland Farming in Palestine - Section 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cultivators and harrows such as rotovators, spikes or small sweep and chisel harrows are used in order to break up large clods and to make the seedbed fine.
		In the Gaza Strip, chickpeas are harvested usually at the green pod stage for human consumption as "hamleh".
		To encourage local farmers to cultivate chickpea varieties of higher yields, ARIJ conducted demonstrations with varieties of chickpeas in the O.P.T. Begun in 1992/93 to last for a period of three to five years, the study is conducted at Al-Dahriyeh (average rainfall 300 mm).
	www.arij.org /pub/dryland/sec4.htm (7311 words)

	2006 Southeastern Peach, Nectarine & Plum Guide \| Weed Management Strategies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cultivation also promotes soil compaction, erosion and the mechanical injuries associated with operator error.
		Maintenance of a non-competitive grass alley with a vegetation-free strip in the tree row is the orchard floor management standard for southern peach growers.
		The vegetation-free strip in the tree row reduces competition for water and nutrients, provides some radiant heat from the soil surface during spring frost/freeze events, and removes winter hosts for catfacing insects.
	www.ent.uga.edu /peach/peach_guide/weed.htm (2764 words)

	ARIJ - Dryland Farming in Palestine - Section 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Because of expansion of olive cultivated areas, the high cost of picking and the difficulties in using workers, machines are frequently used to facilitate picking operations.
		Olive cultivation does not need continuous care and intensive labor, in contrast to other fruit trees; in fact olive crops tend to be neglected.
		Cultivation is highest in the north, primarily in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nablus, followed by production in Gaza and the southern West Bank.
	www.arij.org /pub/dryland/sec5.htm (9668 words)

	Assessing Your Cropland to Protect Water Quality
		Cropland filter strips must be at least 15 feet wide for flat to 10% slopes, 20 feet wide for 10% to 20% slopes, and 25 feet wide for 20% to 30% slopes.
		Seedbeds are prepared on ridges and the ridges are rebuilt during cultivation.
		Strip cropping is not as effective if the crop strips are too wide, especially on steep slopes.
	rps.uvi.edu /CES/cropassess.htm (1905 words)

	Phosphorus and Potassium Fertilization of Corn Grown in Strip-Tilled Rows
		The cultivation of the row area is known as strip or zone tillage.
		The objective of this study is to assess the effects of fall versus spring and broadcast versus banded applications of fertilizer P and K and strip tillage on the growth, P and K uptake, and grain yield of corn.
		Strip tillage was accomplished with a gang of three Rawson coulters.
	frec.cropsci.uiuc.edu /1996/report5 (1306 words)

	CHAPTER 8
		The timber strip is a definite and effective anchor, holding the land together.
		Below the Keyline the upper line of the strip is on a contour and the lower line is parallel to it.
		After the paddock has been completely cultivated tree rows are marked; the first row by a deep single rip cultivation parallel to the Keyline or Guideline.
	www.soilandhealth.org /01aglibrary/010125yeomans/010125ch8.html (2184 words)

	Conservation Tillage Methods
		In earlier no-till planter designs without this soil loosening, the shoe was expected to both till and plant, resulting in damage to the shoe in compacted or rocky soils and in inadequate contact between the soil and the roots of the transplant.
		The general practice in reduced tillage systems is to substitute herbicides, mowing, or flaming for cultivation to kill the existing vegetation before the vegetable crop is planted, but few options exist for weeds that germinate after the crop is planted.
		In strip cultivation, it is usually possible to cultivate the tilled strip for the first 2 to 3 weeks after crop emergence or transplanting, but in other forms of reduced tillage, options are limited once the crop emerges, especially for crops where no post-emergent herbicides are registered.
	www.ncsu.edu /sustainable/tillage/cons_til.html (1545 words)

	Defra, UK; ERDP - Organic Entry Level Stewardship handbook
		Buffer strips have a wide range of potential benefits, such as creating new habitat for small mammals, invertebrates and birds; protecting habitats from sprays, fertiliser and cultivation; protecting archaeological or historic features from damage by mechanical operations, stabilising banks, protecting water courses and reducing diffuse pollution.
		This rule does not apply to set-aside strips wider than 10 m, but the OELS and ELS buffer strips must be located between the set-aside strip and the environmental feature being buffered.
		Buffer strips that have already been established are eligible if their management is not being paid for under another scheme, and they are not under permanent set-aside.
	www.defra.gov.uk /erdp/schemes/oels/handbook/chapter3-e.htm (1828 words)

	Defra, UK - Environmental Protection - Genetic Modification (GM) - Farm Scale Evaluations
		Mr Causey's concern was that as strip farming is traditional in the area (allowing areas of cropping that are narrower than modern arable fields), there is no guarantee that what are now two halves of the same field will have been farmed in the same way over the years.
		Even though a system of strip cultivation has been traditional in the area around Low Burnham, the site where the FSE crop is situated has been farmed as a discrete field for the last three years, with a single crop and associated management at any one time.
		Historically the field contained five strips, four of these have been farmed as one for six years and the last strip was added three years ago.
	www.defra.gov.uk /environment/gm/fse/steering/advice/01.htm (671 words)

	Monitoring Desertification
		The contour cultivation of the plateau environment within rainwater harvesting furrows.
		The cultivation within crescent terraces in the slope environment.
		The cultivation of range and forest trees in gullies so as to regulate the flow of the surface water and limit its capacity for eroding the soil.
	www.acsad.org /old1_old/irp/desertifcation/page4.htm (346 words)

	Erosion and Productivity of Vegetable Systems on Sloping Volcanic Ash-Derived Philippine Soils -- Poudel et al. 63 (5): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		crops are planted in alternating strips on the contour (Morgan, 1986),
		Strip cropping was also effective in lowering N, P, and K losses
		The average ER was 1.2 for organic C, 4.7 for extractable P, 1.7 for Ca, and 1.7 for S. In contrast, the ER was 0.8 for K, 0.8 for Mg, and 0.85 for N. With the exception of K and Mg,
	soil.scijournals.org /cgi/content/full/63/5/1366 (6510 words)

	Mechanical Cultivation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the past several years, equipment manufacturers have introduced specialized cultivators (sometimes referred to as high residue or chisel cultivators) which operate in both conventional and conservation tillage fields.
		In strip tillage cotton, weed control and crop yield were similar for treatments which included: (a) banded herbicides coupled with chisel cultivation and (b) broadcast herbicides.
		Chisel cultivation did not result in superior yields, which suggests that if weed control can be more economically supplied by broadcast herbicides, hooded/shielded sprayers, or less power intensive cultivation, the expense of these specialized cultivators may be difficult to justify.
	www.griffin.peachnet.edu /caes/cotton/99/99mech_cult.html (213 words)

	Agronomic Crops Team On-Farm Research Projects 2000, Special Circular 179-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two tillage methods, fall strip tillage, and spring field cultivation were replicated three times in a randomized complete block design.
		The spring cultivation was performed twice on April 28, 2000, with a cultivator set at a depth of two to three inches.
		As such, the strips were not completely cleared of residue after strip tilling.
	ohioline.osu.edu /sc179/sc179_20.html (458 words)

	Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, Inc. - Cultivation
		Harvest times vary according to the Geographic zone, but typically there is one harvest per year.
		There are two primary methods of harvesting: strip picking and selective picking.
		Strip Picking is when the entire crop is picked in one pass.
	intelligentsiacoffee.com /origin/cultivation (108 words)

	power strip - The Gardens Cure
		If your power strip is running fans and pumps, it can help you figure out where the problems are if something blows.
		It's a lot easier to reset a power strip than have to rummage around to get to the electrical panel to reset the breaker.
		The difference between the moon and the lighted switch on a surge protector/power strip, is that the latter may stimulate the phytochromes that control flowering.
	www.gardenscure.com /420/showthread.php?t=83449 (710 words)

	New Page 1
		The impact of soil erosion can be reduced by techniques including hedging and shelter belts, contour ploughing, strip cultivation, crop rotation and reforestation.
		Cultivation of the soil leaves bare surfaces so that water running over the soil surface can wash soil downhill.
		It can also be deposited behind dams, reducing the efficiency and the useful lifetime of water supply and hydroelectric power schemes.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /envsci/Text2.2.9.htm (440 words)

	Nature diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is seven and a half yards, which would be a rod (also known as a perch or pole) and a half in old measure.
		The strips are perhaps two hundred yards or more long, here two sets meet, one set runs up the hill, the other along the narrow ridge at the top of the hill.
		The elongated reverse s-shape of each strip is the result of turning an ox-drawn plough.
	www.wildyorkshire.co.uk /naturediary/docs/apr29.html (239 words)

	Medieval Open Fields 1
		As populations grew, cultivation areas expanded towards the parish limits and available grazing on marginal heath-land shrank under this advance.
		This indentation is evidence that cultivation reached this area from both villages at an early date (13).
		It would appear from this, that when the new open field came into cultivation, an adjacent portion of heath was allocated as its common (17).
	www.applebymagna.org.uk /appleby_history/in_focus9_medieval_fields1.htm (2751 words)

	[No title]
		The Gaston field was the open field to the south of Tewkesbury, in strip cultivation in the middle ages.
		The location of the 2,000 bodies is unknown but is believed to be somewhere within the battlefield area.
		By challenging the enemy, Edward was able to force battle and fight on terms that gave him the advantage.
	members.tripod.com /~Berwyn/tewkesbury.html (3233 words)

	Agronomic Crops Team On-Farm Research Projects 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Strip-till was performed on November 15, 2001, using a six-row 30-inch Trail Blazer strip-till machine 8 to 9 inches deep.
		The fall deep-till/spring cultivate treatment consisted of using an M&W Earthmaster #1150 disk/ripper 16 inches deep on November 15, 2001, followed by a spring field cultivation three inches deep with one pass of a Wilrich C-shank field cultivator on April 26, 2002.
		The study was planted using a John Deere 7000 Maxemerge six-row planter.
	ohioline.osu.edu /sc190/044.html (515 words)

	[No title]
		Cultivation of soil to prepare it for sowing seeds can break the soil down into fine particles which are easily blown away.
		The previous crop was harvested in late summer, the fields were left covered by the stubble during the winter and were ploughed and cultivated for the next crop in the spring.
		Strip cultivation - growing strips of different crops which are harvested at different times so that large areas of soil are not all left bare at the same time.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /envsci/2.2.8.doc (1625 words)

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