Dust Bowl

There are a handful of people still around who remember the darkness that feel over Oklahoma 80 years ago. Black Sunday was commemorated at the Oklahoma…

Eighty years ago, Caroline Henderson wrote from her homestead in the Oklahoma panhandle for The Atlantic magazine. Her popular regular installments,…

Many books have been written about Woody Guthrie and photographs of the Dust Bowl are recognized around the world. Now there is a graphic novel, Woody…

Many producers have converted to no-till, and now progressive farmers are learning to cover crop to keep soil covered after harvesting a cash crop. Ryan…

Scott Gonnerman started no-till practices in 2005 and began cover-cropping his east Nebraska fields in 2009. He says he used to think of the soil simply…

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…

When the wind picked up from the south on John Schweiser’s farm outside Rocky Ford, Colo., the sky would go black. A charging wall of dust would force the…

Go back to May, 1935. Velma and Ted Wancura have a young son. They haven't had a wheat crop in years, or rain for that matter. Most of their cattle herd…

The mid 1930's were the dry years on the high plains. The drought has taken so much, a tornado took their home, but one young couple continue to…

The hard times began long before the dust storms that inspired movies, documentaries, and books. There was no rain, no crops, wheat was .25 cents a…