Farm

Dust clouds billow near a farm. During the drought’s harshest period between 1934-1935, studies estimate 1.2 billion tons of soil were lost across 100 million acres of the Great Plains.
A farmer in the 1930s lifts a fence line so it doesn’t get buried under the sand in the Oklahoma panhandle. Congress created the Soil Conservation Service to help respond to the Dust Bowl crisis on farms across the Great Plains.

After 90 years, future is uncertain for soil conservation efforts in U.S.

Producers are requesting conservation plans so they can do better conservation work, so they can get financial assistance to help them do conservation. And now, and this is my estimate, you’re going to lose basically a generation of conservation planners. Jamey Wood, former acting state conservationist for Oklahoma

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