Document Type
Circular
Publication Date
9-1955
Department
Horticulture-Forestry Department
Circular Number
118
Keywords
McCrory, windbreaks, crop yields, soil conversation service
Description
The use of field windbreaks as a soil conservation practice in the Plains States has progressed steadily during the past 20 years. These plantings reward their owners with numerous benefits, including the reduction of wind currents, soil drifting, crop blowout, evaporation, transpiration, and control of drifting snow. In many cases they also provide protection for livestock and wildlife and produce wood products and fruit for home use. Many farmers have also observed increased crop yields in areas protected by windbreaks. Little research data are available on this phase. To get more information, employees of the Soil Conservation Service interviewed representative South Dakota farmers during the fall of 1954 to obtain firsthand results on the use of field windbreaks2 for increasing crop yields.
Pages
16
Format
application/pdf
Type
text
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota State State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station
Recommended Citation
Ferber, A. E.; Ford, A. L.; and McCrory, S. A., "Good Windbreaks Help Increase South Dakota Crop Yields" (1955). Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars. 114.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_circ/114