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Up Parcel or using other acceptable methods of weed control that do not disturb the residue on the surface. For grain crops, such as winter wheat or milo, minimum crop residue must be at least thirty percent (30%), determined by the step-point method. For hay or forage crops, crop stubble must measure at least five inches, with row spacing no more than thirty inches. For each dry-up parcel that was dry-land farmed during the preceding year, Applicants shall submit a report that documents the efforts undertaken in the preceding year to dryland farm the parcel, including information about tilling practices, the planting and fallowing rotation, the crops planted, and the acres fallowed; information about herbicides or pesticides applied; information about efforts to control erosion of the soil caused by wind; information about the amount of crops harvested or the number of animal units grazing the land; and information about the amount of crops planted and harvested by other dry-land farmers in the area during the preceding year; if the crop is a grain crop, the percentage crop residue determined using the step-point method, and if the crop is a hay/forage crop, the stubble height in inches and the row spacing in inches. Finally, the Applicants have asserted that the same terms and conditions that were applied in the Catlin Pilot Project should remain in this Pilot Project. The purpose of these Pilot Projects is to determine what works and what needs to be improved upon. The annual reports from the Catlin Pilot Project provide no detailed information on the farms that were dry-land farmed the previous year other than vague descriptions about the yield. LAWMA believes that this part of the annual reporting can be improved, as described above, by the inclusion of water budget analyses, what herbicides where used, whether weeds were mowed, how much crop residue was remaining on the dry-up fields, etc. in the Applicants annual reporting.