What are two lessons farmers learned since Dust Bowl....?

Question

on how to prevent future dust bowls?

Answer 1

lessons learned are: trash the planet with unsustainable agriculture and you get more government subsidy

and putting small farmers into debt enables big agro-business to take them over cheaply & then use them as cheap labour, and, get more government subsidy

Basic good organic sustainable farming practice, eg permaculture, would prevent dust bowls but this lesson has not been learned & soill errosion is still a big problem,

Answer 2

Back before  the Dust Bowl, you have to remember that a lot of homesteading was going on.  With a homesteader on just about every section, a lot of land was plowed up to grow crops to support their family and livestock.  Unfortunatly,  a lot of this land sould have never ever been plowed up(to sandy, ....).  Also a lot of famers were trying to grow crops that  farmers grew back east(where they get more moisture) and these crops took the moisture that was in the ground and dried it out worse.  When the drought hit there was hardly any moisture in the ground to hold it from the wind.

Answer 3

To answer your question seriously....

The two things that I believe were learned are:  Water management either by crop rotation and or conservation.  Land management by how they till the soil, what crop to plant for the conditions, how to lay out the rows for effective water management as well as how to break the wind.

Answer 4

The dust bowl was an affect for several factors. Wind and rain cause the largest amount of soil erasion, and the countour farming combined with building wind breaks are two good solutions to this problem.

Answer 5

One thing that most people do not remember is that originally the Oklahoma Dust Bowl was originally thought to be caused by..................

Global Warming

It was only after the cool period of 1940 to 1974 that scientists thought to look at things like crop rotation and other, more productive and efficient farming techniques.

Lesson one:  Rotate your crops

Lesson two:  Do not plow or irrigate a field that you have no intention of planting

Lesson three: (Goes with lesson 1) Do not plant the same crop over a large area (over 150 acres) as the uniform rows will allow wind to remove soil between the rows.

Lesson four:  Don't be a farmer in Oklahoma!

Answer 6

They did not learn very much ,but continued with irresponsible agricultural methods.

What they did learn was Not to plow in straight lines,so that the wind can gather speed and remove the top soil.

Not to leave too much land naked to the sun ,but use green mulch

At the very least rotate the crops ,and never let plowed lands lie.

And never plow dry land in the wind. better To think about using chisel plows or better still go over to No till Farming.

Plant wind breaks and if you have to plow do it in contours and circles.

And that still leaves a heck of a lot to improve upon .such as using compost instead of fertilizer,plant in Guilds and diverse.

Use drip irrigation ,don`t drill for water from carbon aquifers.

don`t use open furrow irrigation.,or spray during the day.

Check Permaculture for some of the better aspects of organic farming..

There are some links on my profile page if you click my avatar .links do not seem to work any more if we place them here.

Answer 7

Rotate Crops, and ummmmmmmm