Farmers in the Dust Bowl

In any other industry in the United States, storms can have a greater impact on the agricultural industry. The sandstorm attacked the farmers, but they could only blame themselves. The way farmers grow crops and produce crops destroys the land, and after a serious drought most of the land will not help. First of all, in order to understand the influence of sandstorms on farmers, it is necessary to decide what farmers did to induce sandstorms. Farmers before the sandstorm in the early 1900s understood many basic agricultural practices such as the importance of crop rotation and grassland in conservation of topsoil.

Agricultural land in the plain has already recovered from the sand bowl and agricultural methods have changed significantly. In addition to alternately using 1 year of wheat and 1 year grazing livestock, farmers in dusty areas also use wheat, sorghum, fallow lands for 3 years. They also planted trees as a barrier against the wind. After years of sandstorms, the western United States could become another disaster site again, farmers and agricultural officials have not learned from previous generations' mistakes. In the 1970s, American farms enjoyed such a huge surplus, farmers increasingly sell agricultural crops to the Soviet Union and even farmers in limited areas were raised to make profits . This shocked the environmentalist who attracted attention to the flow of agricultural nutrients to water resources.

Today's plain farmland has been recovering for a long time and American farmers have benefited from lessons learned from dust balls. In 1935, the Soil Protection Agency, the Federal agency responsible for implementing anti-corrosion measures, established a dustproof bowl. After the legislation was enacted President Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) signed the law and the state passed a law to create approximately 3,000 regional soil reserves.