Originally Posted by Butterflyblue
My husband, being a farmer in country that still bears scars from that era, is very interested in the Dust Bowl and how it compares to today. Basically, we have had MUCH less rain this year than in any time during the dust bowl years, but because farmers know how to manage the land better, and there is more irrigation, the impact is much lower.
That's interesting. I had wondered how we were escaping a repeat of the dust bowl years.