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Preventing Another Dust Bowl with Healthy Soil Practices

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No event did more to emphasize the severity of the erosion crisis than the Dust Bowl affecting High Plains states beginning in the early-1930s.

Maintaining healthy soils is one way to prevent a similar disaster. We consider modern practices that build healthy soil.

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