United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service		 New York Go to Accessibility Information
Skip to Page Content




Web image: Photo of cross wind ridges applied in a field to control soil loss from wind forcesCross Wind Ridges

Practice Code: 588
Reporting Unit: Acre (Ac.)

Cross wind ridges are ridges formed by tillage, planting or other operations and aligned across the prevailing wind erosion direction.

Purposes and Benefits

  • Reduces soil erosion

  • Reduces sediment deposition

  • Improves soil health

  • Improves crop yields
     

Conservation Practice Support Documents

Support Documents for this conservation practice are available for download from an abbreviated version of Section IV of the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG).

Web link image: Field Office Technical GuideAll support documents associated with this and other conservation practices are available at the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide Web site.

 

Related Conservation Practices

This practice is commonly used in a Conservation Management System with practices such as:

Contour Farming (330)
Cross Wind Trap Strips (589C)
Stripcropping (585)

If you encounter problems with this Web page, please contact the Webmaster at 315-477-6524.

< Back to Conservation Practices