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regusyesterday at 10:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Overplowing is what created the dust storms of the Great Depression Dust Bowl era.


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ErroneousBoshtoday at 11:09 AM

That and only raising arable crops without turning fields over to pasture and allowing cattle and sheep to graze them.

You have to do that, so the grasses and clovers can replenish the soil.

We eat because there's six inches of earth, it rains, and cows shit solid gold.

youknownothingyesterday at 11:06 PM

that and the removal of the native grass, which largely kept the soil in place.