[piasa]

The prairie grass in that region was tilled under years before the dust bowl drought began, not during and after.

[PeterPrinciple]

The prairie grass in that region was tilled under years before the dust bowl drought began, not during and after.

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My point to you is this can happen even if there was no tillage. Climate is complex, it is natural. But the history books have convinced you it is just that ONE THING that was the problem.

We still have soil erosion even after all the federal programs to stop it. I am not even sure we have reduced total erosion. We just changed it. Water and dirt move down hill, you can’t stop that.

We have floods even after all our man made efforts to stop it.

Now, I am not saying that we don’t do anything, just that we need to understand the bigger picture.

The current USDA gov’t funded fashion is cover crops. The extra tillage in the fall for this causes just as much erosion as it’s potential savings.