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Warpy

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2. Farming techniques have changed enough

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Sun Aug 6, 2017, 06:41 PM

Aug 2017

that I doubt we'd see another Dust Bowl, not to the extent it was seen in the 1930s. Still, the center part of the country was never meant to be plowed up, it was always at its best as grassland that went on forever. A lot of the US prairie is living on borrowed time that's about to run out, the Ogalalla aquifer is not going to last forever.

And yes, the 1930s drought did extend across the southern Canadian prairies as well as the western US

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Arid summer means farmers in southern Saskatchewan face a desperate situation [View all] inanna Aug 2017 OP

If I could I would send them all the dam rain we have had this doc03 Aug 2017 #1

Farming techniques have changed enough Warpy Aug 2017 #2