https://techsomogro.com/climate-change-update-return-dust-bowl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-change-update-return-dust-bowl Science, Technology and the Future Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://techsomogro.com/climate-change-update-return-dust-bowl/#comment-30709 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:28:33 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=7578#comment-30709 […] warming is making drylands get drier. For the American Midwest, the great fear is a return to The Dust Bowl conditions of the 1930s that followed a period of above-average precipitation lasting nearly a […]

]]> https://techsomogro.com/climate-change-update-return-dust-bowl/#comment-28462 Sat, 13 May 2023 16:08:29 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=7578#comment-28462 […] from poor agricultural practices and a decade-long drought across the U.S. prairie states. I wrote about this historic event back then, a drought that lasted eight years and when combined with the Great Depression proved to be the […]

]]> https://techsomogro.com/climate-change-update-return-dust-bowl/#comment-8063 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:51:01 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=7578#comment-8063 I’ve done my best year after year to hold my soil in place, but I watch many of my neighbors working the ground too much and not keeping a good cover on it. It may take a return to dry conditions to get them to realize that conservation practices pay. Will we have another dust bowl, not likely, since the soils at the center of the dust bowl have mostly been returned to grass and there are more trees in these sensitive areas today. Still, too little rain and too much wind could get our farm ground blowing again. We have the tools to grow crops in dry conditions, and we’ll do our best, after all we have a hungry world to feed.

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