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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Filter Strips

2016-12-12 17:00:16| National Farmers Union

By Trixie Wessel, NFU Intern NFUs Climate Column recently covered the practice of creating field borders; this week, were talking about a similar practice: filter strips. Filter strips, also known as buffer strips, are areas of vegetation planted between cropland and surface water to obstruct the passage of  sediment and pollutants into environmentally sensitive areas. Filter strips trap suspended […]

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