To control soil drifting: 1. Understand the cause of drifting and what drifting does to productive farmland. 2. Use one or more of the following long-term protective practices: Strip farming, Contour farming, Planting field shelterbelts, Reducing or eliminating summer fallow. 3. Use one or more of the following short-term protective practices: Growing cover crops — seeded or volunteer, Trash-cover farming, in which you maintain adequate trash protection, avoid unnecessary soil pulverization, use suitable equipment. 4. Use emergency control measures if drifting starts. Don't wait until damage has been done.