Posted by paul on October 03, 2019 at 11:02:16 from (76.77.199.243):
In Reply to: Dust Bowl posted by John in La on October 03, 2019 at 09:09:13:
You are mostly right, but as mentioned you have the tillage a bit wrong.
They had some form of multi or light tillage which worked well for their dry soils. When the wet years came they switched to heavier plowing, which makes a better crop in wet times.
There were some grain shortages going on in the world, and prices went up, and any non farmer could buy a tractor and plow and some dust acres and make a mint in a year, the grain economics were on an upward spiral and land costs didn’t catch up.....
Then the dry years returned and it took real work and real knowledge to make those dry acres produce; the farmers of the day were overwhelmed and didn’t know and the plow was the wrong thing for the times and everyone was used to a money tree, now it was back to a soup bone and so the ecconomics went to heck everyone was under water and couldn’t afford to try anything new or better the money was all gone.
We are suffering the opposite up here now, years of flooding and wet and water. The flood bowl doesn’t quit sound right, have to come up with a name.
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