Great Depression

How the Great Depression Transformed American Farmland

Dan Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

From Dust to Renewal: How the Great Depression Sparked U.S. Soil Conservation When the winds of the 1930s carried dust across America’s plains, it wasn’t just soil that disappeared—it was hope. Out of that devastation came a powerful movement that would forever change the way farmers and ranchers cared for the land. I’m Mark Oppold, and in this American Agriculture …