Ag Outlook 11-12-2020

About this time 87 years ago during another time of severe drought winds began blowing in parched South Dakota lifting tons of topsoil into the air and depositing it all the way to Albany, New York. This was the infamous ‘black blizzard,’ one of the worst of the Dust Bowl. That multi-year drought forced families from the Dakotas to Texas off their lands after it took 100 million acres of prime farmland out of production. Decades of overworking the land caused the Black Blizzard and those that followed until the drought eased in 1939. Measures such as the Drought Relief Service and the Emergency Relief Act offered millions hit hard by depression and weather those years. It took employing of sustainable farm techniques and moisture from the skies to end the worst of the Dust Bowl era.