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I was watching a movie about the dust bowls or whatver they call them in Oklahoma or some place like that back in the day...but why aren't there still dust storms that all them peeps ran away from?
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dubm kweschen...
I was watching a movie about the dust bowls or whatver they call them in Oklahoma or some place like that back in the day...but why aren't there still dust storms that all them peeps ran away from?
One big factor in the Dust Bowl times was (the lack of) crop rotation.
Right. The causes of the dustbowl were complicated, but they all stem from the soil's inability to retain carbon-based nutrients and water due to overuse.
1. The Midwest had been filled with independent farmers and sharecroppers farming on bank-owned land
2. The economy collapsed and the price of grain fell
3. Independent farmers and sharecroppers couldn't get a good enough price for their crops, so they went broke
4. The banks took hold of the land from independent farmers and evicted the sharecroppers
5. The banks realized they could make a lot more money with the land if they sold it to gigantic factory farming companies
6. The gigantic factory farms went up - sometimes they hired the previous tenant farmers to stay on as workers
7. The technology for factory farms was a bit undeveloped in those days, and the companies that owned them were looking to make a quick profit, so they started planting and harvesting as much fast-growing grain as they possibly could, non-stop
8. All the organic nutrients and water that were in the soil slowly started to get used up
9. There were two years in a row of bad drought ... a bad coincidence
10. The Grapes Of Wrath
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