Reply #8: Unless there has been a drastic change since the 1970s [View All]

[jwirr]

farm practices now are worse than in the 1930s. We have fewer trees/brush to stop the winds from blowing the soil away and we are farming what would be called marginal areas that traditionally suffered from drought. Many in Iowa and Minnesota have been trying to move to more conservation conscious methods but I do not know it they have acted fast enough.