Here's a look at strips we had last fall. The dead, standing strips - is Cereal Rye - planted the previous fall, and left standing all year. In-Between the strips, I mowed the mature rye, and disked in the seed heads to get a new crop this fall. The disked in plot isn't as heavy as the original plot was, but it still did well.
Behind the strips in the foreground are the Sunflowers, then Corn - You can see there is a strip of Goldenrod too - though I didn't really mean to have it. Behind them is another clover field - It was red clover, planted 2 years ago - this summer I lightly disked and overseeded Alsike Clover - hoping to thincken the plot.
The Field is about 8 acres altogether - no "strip" is larger than 2 acres, most are much smaller.
Strips work great for me - They make excellent distance markers too if you hunt the field!