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Contour Buffer Strips
Contour Buffer Strips
Brandon Carman/ Earth scinece - December 14th 2016
Advandge & Disadvanges
Price/Cost
Advandges: slow water runofff, reduce noise and odor, serve as a source of food, establishment of natural vegatiotoun
Primary cost per acre for contour farming depends on the field layout and surveying of the contours
Disadvantages: may have to reseed, may require irrgation, may require weed managment, matince includes annual mowing
Techquine
at least 15 feet wide fro strips planted to grassses when sod forming grasses make up more than 50% of the stand.
sod forming grasses make up more than 50% of the stand.
Definition
History
Purpose
1930's promoted that contouring was an essential part of erosion control and became more popular , and started in Germany
Contour buffer strips are strips of perennial vegetation alternated down the slope with wider cultivated strips that are farmed on the contour
they want to reduce sheet and rill erosion increase water infiltration, reduce transport of sediment and other water contiamernts down the slope