Best Mangement Practices

Effect of Field Surface Roughness

BMPs are a combination of management, cultural, and structural practices that the agricultural scientists, the government, or some other planning agency decides upon to be the most effective and economical way of controlling such problems without disturbing the quality of the environment. Minimizing raindrop impact on the soil and reducing runoff and runoff velocities are three main objectives that are taken into consideration when saving endangered fields or land. When reducing the velocity of the runoff, crop residues, plants, rough soil surfaces, and smaller slopes help spread the flow of water over a greater area into a thin layer. When minimizing the effects of wind, cover crops and residues are useful. Farmers can avoid working the land when it is dry, thus avoiding dust storms and loss of soil from wind erosion.

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