Abstract
The contamination of streams and other natural bodies of water through agricultural runoff has become a very important environmental issue. Surface water runoff can contain heavy loads of sediment and/or agricultural chemicals, such as nitrogen and atrazine. Conservation tillage methods with vegetative filter strips downslope from cropped fields help· to combat this problem. Conservation tillage has proven effective in decreasing erosion by decreasing exposure of the soil surface to rainfall. Vegetative filter strips provide an area where sediment and agricultural chemicals from cropland can be deposited before the runoff reaches a body of water.
Publication Date
1992
Volume
13
Number
5
Repository Citation
Madison, C. E.; Blevins, Robert L.; and Frye, Wilbur, "Effects of Tillage and Grass Filter Strips on Surface Runoff of Water, Nitrate, Sediment, and Atrazine" (1992). Soil Science News and Views. 66.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_views/66
