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by cur5665 on December 5th, 2008
Mechanized farm machinery led to the tilling and plowing under of NATURAL DROUGHT RESISTANT PLANTS on a much greater scale than before ..... Crop plants replaced natural plants ..... Soil erosion began on a larger scale ..... Drought began around 1932 ..... Soil dries out where NON-native plants were removed ..... Natural storms and blizzards began to blow topsoil away ..... Farmers abandoned fields and plowed new ones as an inexpensive way to keep planting crops ..... Abandoned fallow land began to blanket Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado ..... Drought and blizzards continued until most topsoil was gone.
by Sodapop on November 17th, 2008
poor farming and drought.
by Go know thyself is THE RED QUEEN on November 17th, 2008
Bagless vacuum cleaners.
*I hate bagless vacuum's!
by MrJosh on November 17th, 2008
I think it was drought along with insufficient crop rotation causing massive erosion.
by strange1 still in pb on October 25th, 2009
dust?
by Anonymous on October 25th, 2009
Years of plowing up the natural grasslands of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and ...... to plant more and more wheat for a booming market...
Collapse of the market, plus an intense and prolonged drought - with almost continuous winds - made life miserable for many thousands and claimed the lives, particularly, of the very young and elderly.
Should you want to read an excellent account of those who survived the "Dirty Thirties" I recommend "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan.
by Phil in the Blank...backandtotheleft on November 17th, 2008
The US government!
by shrinkess on November 17th, 2008
Extreme dryness, lack of proper irrigation, inadequate terracing - lots of things.
by Weylon on June 29th, 2011
They had no idea what they were doing and overworked the land and when the drought came nothing was there to bind the soil. My guess, I don't need your scientific BS. :)
by ConservativelyLiberal on November 17th, 2008
Dust.
by Long Shot on November 17th, 2008
drought, which made the land to be barren. In that area the wind blows most of the time. It can still happen.
by Scott_B2418 on June 29th, 2011
the government in an attemt to stop deflation had farmers burn there crops. then paid them not to grow more. this left the top soil uncovered. progressives caused the dust bowl and have spent 80 years covering it up.
What name was given to the Great Plains farmlands stripped of topsoil by drought& wind?
by Answerbag Staff on June 9th, 2010
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why didn't President Hoover's policies work?
by TjoeBaxter is Hot Yo on October 9th, 2010
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How wealthy are the Rothschilds?
by ToLo on December 6th, 2010
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i scored 837 for 1200...which is a total waste...ifeel so useless now this is my final school year exam and?
by jakalot on May 8th, 2011
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If it's not ok to ask rich people for money because they create the jobs, can I ask a rich person for a job?
by Mister_Bromide on September 22nd, 2011
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the government paid farmers to destroy crops and live stock. pigs and cows where slotered and burned. feilds where burned nothing was planted in the fields after burning. the government paid the farmers not to plant. this was a policy that progreesives inacted, they have been coverring it up since.
by Scott_B2418 on June 29th, 2011