In the 1930s, the United States — particularly in the Great Plains — entered a period of extreme drought that became known historically as the Dust Bowl. At the beginning ... by the Great Depression.

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ... This act restricts the ability of banks to dispossess farmers in times of distress. Originally effective until ...

The Farm Bill, which was first started during the Dust Bowl to provide money for farmers and guidelines for soil conservation ...

Ten days driving down 'the Mother Road' revealed a country whose obsession with its own past is at odds with its precarious ...

and a partnership between government agencies and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history in all its complexities ...

During the dust bowl, farmers took to using the plant in place of traditional hay. For example, Kansas produced over 350,000 tonnes of thistle hay in 1934 alone. It's credited by some as having saved ...

Rush and her family left Arkansas in the wake of one of the largest migrations in U.S. history. During the Dust Bowl of the ...

The Dust Bowl is the cautionary tale of what happens ... s New Deal that an emphasis was put on soil conservation and farmers ...

The Farm Bill, which was first started during the Dust Bowl to provide money for farmers and guidelines for soil conservation, is so crucial today — not just for our food security and economy ...

Adapted from “Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sonora Babb” by Iris Jamal Dunkle (University of California Press, 2024). Used with permission. Sanora Babb, who grew up in a dugout farming ...

But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history, two-thirds of Saskatchewan farmers were forced to line up for monthly aid.

Back in the Dust Bowl days he watched in awe as dark clouds ... “They just couldn’t keep up,” Buzz Cooper says of the cotton farmers near Lubbock who normally bring their crops to his ...