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were. Mrs. Mark Mummau, of Madison, agreed with this observation by commenting “When we get right much rain we aren’t up for having the land rush to the river. Erosion control is the main reason we like strips. We had them in once and took them out. Big Washes developed and we put the strips back in. It was worth putting them back in.”
Culpeper County dairy farmers Jack Inskeep and his brothers, Bernard and Byrd, whose family has used stripcropping systems for many years, have much to say about the value of strips in their operation.
“Stripcropping is a way of life for us; we’ve grown up with them and it’s the only way we farm. With strips, we have more flexibility to maintain a good rotation system and can easily try new methods or crops on a few strips without changing the entire system. The strips are also a good way to tackle a problem such as we have with scattercane. We can attack it a strip at a time over a few years by rotating to soybeans instead of trying to control it all at
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