Strip farming near Elachbutting Rock

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At Elachbutting Rock, we were able to drive to the top of it. From there, you could see for miles. My first surprise was to see the way the farming land was being used way over to the north-west. I took the above photo to try to capture the landscape and also to show how the land is being used. The lower image is zoomed in from the upper image. In the background of the lower, you can see more easily how the farming land alternates between rows of shrubs or bushes and cleared land which looks like it is either pasture or crop. In my limited knowledge, this is one method of ‘strip farming’. It may be used to minimise wind erosion. If the farm is ‘mixed’ and runs cattle and/or sheep as well as cropping, the rows of trees would give the animals shelter in bad weather as well as aiding in wind erosion.