During the Dust Bowl, farmers faced devastating consequences such as severe crop failures and loss of livelihood due to prolonged drought and poor agricultural practices. The relentless dust storms eroded topsoil, making it nearly impossible to grow crops, leading many farmers to go bankrupt and abandon their farms. Additionally, the environmental and economic hardships forced families to migrate in search of work and better living conditions, particularly to states like California. This mass displacement contributed to widespread social and economic challenges in the affected regions.
The gov. Took their land
The government Took their land
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.
They didn't get rain and had no other way to get it.
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.
They were unable to pay their debts.
The gov. Took their land
The government Took their land
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.
The "Dust Bowl"
They did stuff
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.
They didn't get rain and had no other way to get it.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Many farmers moved West to California when their farm turned to dust.
Farmers did not practice crop rotation.
1930