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Better Farming Ontario magazine is published 11 times per year. After each edition is published, we share featured articles online.


Fighting to prevent a California 'dust bowl'

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Don't expect to see a reversal of a "Grapes of Wrath" movie scene, with destitute Californian farmers piling their belongings onto trucks and heading east to Oklahoma. Still, the spectre of a dustbowl in a state with a gross agricultural production normally higher than the whole of Canada is a possibility.

Large portions of California have been classified as experiencing severe or extreme drought according to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska. Vast acreages may be laid bare without irrigation and as much as 250 tonnes of topsoil per acre may blow away, the Natural Resources Conservation Service warns.

Farmers are advised to avoid plowing noxious weeds until there is enough moisture to form clods that will protect the soil. They should build furrows or ridges to trap drifting soil particles. BF 
 

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