Many farmers lost their livelihoods and were forced to abandon their land due to the extreme drought and soil erosion caused by the Dust Bowl. This led to widespread financial hardship and mass migration of families in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
Before the days of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, the area was rich, fertile farmland. During the Dust Bowl, most of the irreplaceable topsoil blew away essentially removing farming as a viable vocation in the area.
to California
The steel plow had just been invented and it ripped through the top soil and grass. This made the earth and soil VERY loose. The dirt created the dust bowl, because all over farmers were buying the steel plows, they were less work. During the dust bowl dust and soil covered EVERYTHING in the south. The farmers couldn't hardly keep anything they planted alive because it would be covered in dirt. Dust storms killed alot of crop and covered not only crop but houses. So it affected farmers by killing crop. At lease if the farmers were in the south it did. They could not pay their loans or afford to buy basics.
Many farmers from the Dust Bowl region migrated to California seeking work in agriculture. Some also headed to the West Coast looking for new opportunities. However, a significant number remained in the Midwest and adapted to new farming practices.
Life for California farmers during the dust bowl was horrible, the farmers would go plant their crops and when the dust bowl come their crops would be black and start to rot because they became not any good anymore.
The term was intended to be pretty descriptive.
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
Many farmers lost their livelihoods and were forced to abandon their land due to the extreme drought and soil erosion caused by the Dust Bowl. This led to widespread financial hardship and mass migration of families in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Before the days of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, the area was rich, fertile farmland. During the Dust Bowl, most of the irreplaceable topsoil blew away essentially removing farming as a viable vocation in the area.
Farmers did not practice crop rotation.
1930
They did stuff
The "Dust Bowl"
to California
Many lost their farms.